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U.S. highlights the role of the OAS
posted on: Dec 3 2011 8:15 by RDugey. Viewed 18 times.
the Government of United States yesterday reiterated that the Organization of American States (OAS) is the "preeminent" to deal with the Affairs of the countries in the American continent.
During his accustomed press conference daily, the spokesman for the Department of State, Mark Toner, avoided directly commenting on the validity of the community of Latin American countries and Caribbean (CELAC), which will be launched this weekend in a presidential in the capital Summit venezolana.
"There are many subregional organizations in the hemisphere;" "some of which we belong and to others, such as this, not", said Toner.
Multilateral agency
"obviously we continue working through the OAS, such as the pre-eminent multilateral organization that speaks for the hemisphere," said Toner, without giving more details.
On Thursday, the OAS welcomed the Celac, a new continental entity of which are u000aexcluding the US and Canada.
The Celac, promoted by the Venezuela President, Hugo Chávez, emerged as a body purely Latin American and Caribbean, U.S. and Canada, and as heir to the Rio Group and of the Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean on integration and development (CALC).
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