Biden News - Biden willing to support Total Peace: Ambassador Murillo

Biden News - Biden willing to support Total Peace: Ambassador Murillo

 

The Colombian ambassador to the United States, Luis Gilberto Murillo, sent a letter to the Government of that country.

 

Biden News reported the Colombian ambassador to the United States, Luis Gilberto Murillo, in his most recent interview with the president of that country, Joe Biden, received the message that he will work for hand in hand with President Gustavo Petro, including the issue of peace.

 

This was stated by Murillo in an interview with the program "En la hora de Acero", on Canal Telecafé, where he also assured that relations with that government "are at the best of times, and this has to do with the fact that in Colombia they are making some very important transformations, the electoral phenomenon of President Petro and Vice President Márquez, was of great connotation in the United States, Antony Blinken, like the President of the United States, Joe Biden was the first to call President Petro once chosen”.

It was also noted in a Biden News Conference Today, he also pointed out that "President Petro assigned me tasks when it came to assuming this responsibility, the environment, and biodiversity, protection of the forest, the energy transition, the other issue was total peace proposed by President Petro, the implementation of the agreement with the Farc, the negotiations with the ELN”.

 

He explained that other issues in the relationship that are being addressed are related to migration and the issue associated with drugs, as well as a review of what it has to do with in terms of justice, security, defence, and intelligence, "you have to do a lot of interdiction, To dismantle the true owners of criminal networks and multi-crime gangs, the issue of money laundering, illicit enrichment, the issue of changing the links, that implies that many changes must be made there.”

 

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Regarding the relationship with the Republicans, he indicated that "they have been more down-to-earth and receptive, with the presentations we have made, Senator Ted Cruz, one of the congresswomen, Maria Salazar, was calmer, more expectant, who was very critical of President Petro attended us and we believe that he already has a different concept, she told us”.

 

Biden News also noted, regarding the issue of requesting the withdrawal of Colombian visas to enter the United States, he maintained that "we already have precedents, the issue of immigration policy is the most robust in Colombia's history with the United States, and we have learned how to show the world we have welcomed more than 2.5 million people with Venezuelan nationality, they are here and more migrants from other countries are arriving from Haiti and other countries.  

 

Biden News Conference Today: What President Petro has said is that we maintain this policy, we deepen it we expanded for the people, so Colombia is a model for the world, and that is why we have all the moral authority to propose to the world, a new immigration policy, look today we have total agility in the visa process, and we are working so that there, except for visas, for Colombian tourists who travel to the United States, and we have news for the more than 300,000 undocumented Colombians in the United States, we are working on migratory relief for at least 18 months, so that they live with dignity and can return to the country.”