Gisella Jiménez, representative of the Venezuelan Coalition on Democratic Evolution and the Regional Integration Organizations, warned on Sunday that coercive diplomacy is a trend that violates the Charter of the Organization of American States (OAS); and it accentuates unilateralism, despises collective spaces and «supposes to forget the long road advanced by the international community to ensure peace».
«We wish to call attention to a certain tendency of coercive diplomacy that accentuates unilateralism and despises the collective and democratic spaces of regional integration for the pacific solution of disputes between States», said Jiménez this Sunday at the 48th General Assembly of the OAS.
That is why she urged the OAS to reflect these changes. In addition, she added that: «It is necessary for international organizations to promote the transformation of their structures and principles according to the advance of the peoples».
In this regard, she stressed that the declaration of America as a territory of peace, a fact made concrete within the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), «is removed by the increases in budgets in the arms market.»
For their part, American societies have experienced novel forms of political participation, which «transcend the limits of representation and generate scenarios of protagonist participation», said the representative, quoted in the social network of the Foreign Ministry.
During her participation, Jiménez also highlighted that Venezuela expresses its support for gender equality, for the struggle for women’s rights to a life free of violence and for the rights of LGBTI sex-diversity communities.
