Asunción, Agencia IP.- Foreign Affairs Minister Ruben Ramírez Lezcano concluded his trip to Washington, D.C., where he met with the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Latin America, Brian Nichols, and the current Secretary of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro.
According to Infobae, the meeting with the State Department official focused on Paraguay’s program to update the OAS in light of Ramírez’s candidacy and his perspective on the region.
Key regional issues discussed included «the Chinese offensive, Iranian terrorism, the undocumented migration crisis, and the regimes in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.»
Ramírez condemned the dictatorships in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, maintained a good dialogue with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, and Mexico, and considered it crucial for the Caribbean—a bloc of 14 countries—to play a more prominent role in the OAS.
Paraguay supports multilateral dialogue mechanisms and proposes Ramírez’s candidacy for the new OAS Secretary General to modernize the organization and address current challenges.
Ramírez’s candidacy will be formalized in December, and the OAS vote will occur in March 2025. The Foreign Affairs Minister presents Paraguay’s proposals to the American organization’s member countries.
During his stay in Washington, the Paraguayan Foreign Affairs Minister also participated in the CAF/OAS Annual Conference, focusing on common and specific challenges facing American countries, and met with Panama’s Minister of Public Security, Frank Ábrego, and Jamaica’s Ambassador, Audrey Marks, to discuss issues of mutual interest.