“Colombian President Gustavo Petro Addresses Climate Crisis and Debt Swap Proposal in Meeting with US President Joe Biden”

2023-04-21 09:16:11

Washington

The meeting between the presidents Gustavo Petro and The president of United StatesJoe Biden in Washington, Petro referred to to the climate crisis and commented: “We talked about the problem of the climate crisis and how to approach the green economy. Of the possibility of swapping foreign debt for climate action around the world”, For his part, President Joe Biden felt interested in the proposal to do it through the IMF.

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In addition, the president of Colombia assured that Being able to connect Colombia and Venezuela electrically is key. “If it is filled with clean energy, it would be one of the most helpful factors to decarbonise a EE. UU.” he pointed out.

On the other hand, Petro also spoke about “how to build an electrical power grid Colombia – Panama becomes fundamental, as well as the possibility of an agrarian reform and building a policy more effective against drugs”.

Likewise, the Colombian president said that during the meeting with Biden he He also spoke that the peasantry has other possibilities of subsisting. In addition, he stated: “I proposed that the Venezuelan electoral schedule can be promoted with guarantees. The US was not conditioned, it was left on the table to make the elections and then lift sanctions.

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