President Ivan Duque applied to the International Community of Recourse for the Attention of Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia

Luego of the praises that President Ivan Duque has received by the International Community through the announcement that initiated these months that in Colombia a Temporary Statute of Protection for Venezuelan Migrants is being implemented, with the target to regularize to the search of 996,000 citizens of the country that is located in Colombia to accommodate the 704,000 regularized, the mandate is solicited to move resources from abroad to attend this migrant population in the country.

Expressed in its intervention in a virtual conversation conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS, in English), donde además aseguró que se est viviendo una de las más grande humanitarias por elexodo de ciudadanos del vecino país.

“We have to move resources that are not for Colombia; son for those families who need it. And we want to listen to our voice so that the world can see that this is the greatest and most humanitarian crisis of the current times, in the face of Syria ”, dijo Duque.

The president also indicates that this initiative is the plant from his campaign in 2018, and that it is looking for protection for Venezuelans in the country during a decade, in the hope that Nicolás Maduro’s regime will end in this nation.

“We are making the final decision with regard to the decision to create in Colombia a temporary statute of protection for 10 years to accommodate 1.8 million migrants. We are not a rich country, we have a lesser minority per capita than the nations that he pushed for in favor of migration in Europe. It is a job with those who know that we have a tax and social cost ”, aseveró el presidente colombiano.

Prohibition of probes, reiteró que this decision is taken in the context of support and fraternity in the situation that the Venezuelans derive from the regime in this country.

“This Statute plants many things, but if it is correct, it is an act of peace, of fraternity, a veritable act of humanitarian solidarity.”, demonstrated during the intervention.

The president also recorded that the status was also by the mandate that he had with the citizens of the old country, and that many of his ancestors were victimized by Simón Bolívar in the battles of Independence that consolidated in Colombia as a Republic, and that Colombians have always had a friendly husband in these countries in the most difficult moments of the country in recent history.

“When Colombia encounters very many difficult circumstances, it takes place in Venezuela to meet opportunities. A German of mine abula was one of his people, and he taught us, when we were new, the value of his brotherhood ”, record.

Duque also welcomes the need to maintain a diplomatic circle in order for Venezuela to return to a true democracyAccording to Maduro’s leader, the German country has seen an increase of 3,000 per cent in its economy, which has risen to 90 per cent of its population, with the main consequence being forced migration.

“We are working in both directions: a policy of migration of hospitalization and fraternity, and also to do something against this tyranny that has affected millions and millions of Venezuelans”, dijo el mandatario.

The Vice-President of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Daniel Runde, welcomes the moderation of the conversation, and also congratulates the President on his initiative of the Temporary Statute for the Protection of Venezuelan Migrants.

Mark Green, Executive Director of the McCain Institute for Liderazgo International, also took part in the event.