President Luis Arce warned of the danger in the region if Argentina joins NATO

Published at: 26/04/2024 08:43 PM

The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, warned of the danger to peace in the region if Argentina becomes a global partner of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Telesur website reported.

He stressed that during an interview with Sputnik, Arce asserted that the real interest of the United States in the region is to seize natural resources such as Bolivian lithium, the largest reserve in the world.

He recalled that the head of the Southern Command, General Laura Richardson, visited the area recently, about which she explained that “for a long time the United States has set its eyes on what we were building, which was called the Lithium Triangle, between Argentina, Chile and Bolivia, where we wanted to form a kind of OPEC to regulate the price of lithium at the time. It was a job that was done with three governments, but hey, now the situation has changed.”

He also referred to the Chinese companies that work in the country in the exploitation of lithium, respecting national laws and rules, and mentioned that Russia will soon join.

“The Russian company is also on its way, which has to meet some more requirements to be able to sign the contract that will allow it to work on the Uyuni salt flat, which is a lithium power, to exploit and produce lithium carbonate and its derivatives,” he said.

Regarding Bolivia's proposal to make Palestine a full member state of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples' Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), he said that it seeks to alleviate the injustice of the United States of vetoing its membership in the United Nations (UN).

Arce assured that Bolivia does not agree with the genocide that Israel is committing against the Palestinian people. “We cannot, as humans, be on the sidelines of it and if the United Nations does not want to recognize it through a veto, I have stated that here at ALBA-TCP, which is a group of countries that think differently, that knows how to respect the sovereignty of countries, that knows how to respect the self-determination of Peoples.”

“That we have (the Palestinian People) in our midst in a way, even if it is nominal, but that the Palestinian brothers feel that there are countries that recognize them and that of course we would like to have all kinds of economic and international relations with this country,” he added.

Argentina's approach to NATO is linked to the new foreign policy developed by the government of the ultra-liberal Javier Milei, whose references are the United States and Israel, in addition to Richardson's recent visit to the South American nation.

Since coming to power, Milei has adopted a policy of submission to the United States and has on several occasions expressed his support for Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people, for the recent crisis unleashed against Iran and for the position of Ukraine, a proxy country of NATO, in its conflict with Russia.

Mazo News Team