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Colombian President Gustavo Petro introduced on Saturday that Colombia would cease coal exports to Israel because the struggle in Gaza continues.
“We’ll cease exporting coal to Israel till the genocide stops,” Petro wrote on the “X” platform.
In Could this yr, he introduced the severance of diplomatic relations with Israel and claimed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s authorities was committing genocide towards the Palestinians.
Final month, Colombian International Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo introduced that the nation’s president had directed the nation to open an embassy within the West Financial institution metropolis of Ramallah.
“President Petro has ordered the opening of the Colombian embassy in Ramallah and the illustration of Colombia in Ramallah, that are the following steps we are going to take,” Murillo stated. He believes that extra international locations will quickly begin to assist Recognizing a Colombian Palestinian state’s efforts earlier than the United Nations would…Colombia truly helps it.