Uruguay
Delgado criticized Orsi over his UN speech and said he ignored opposition concerns
The National Party leader said the president had summoned him before the trip to New York to discuss Uruguay’s position at the United Nations. Other opposition figures also criticized the lack of references to Nicaragua and Venezuela.
Álvaro Delgado questioned Yamandú Orsi’s message at the UN General Assembly and said the president did not take up concerns that, according to him, he conveyed in a meeting before the trip to New York, El País Uruguay reported.
According to that outlet, the president of the National Party Board said on X that Orsi had summoned them to discuss Uruguay’s position at the United Nations and that they had proposed speaking clearly about democracy and free elections in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. He then complained that the speech made no mention of Nicaragua and Venezuela and that, regarding Cuba, it referred to the blockade.
Delgado also said they had been called to build a state foreign policy and contribute a country position, but he considered that in the end there was a message aimed at domestic politics and “very little state policy.”
According to El País Uruguay, other opposition leaders also criticized the presidential address. National Party lawmaker Pablo Abdala wrote on X that Orsi was disappointing and accused him of having been more of a spokesman for the Cuban regime than for his own government. On the same social network, Colorado Party senator Pedro Bordaberry questioned the president’s condemnation of the blockade on Cuba without mentioning the lack of democracy on the island.
During his speech at the 81st UN General Assembly, Orsi defined peace as a permanent construction and said Uruguay cannot be indifferent to different forms of suffering, including war, organized crime, terrorism, repression stemming from tyranny and the economic blockade that, he said, the Cuban people suffer.
The president also defended the pursuit of understanding, dialogue and peaceful solutions to conflicts. He also stressed that the UN has more and more reason to exist, although he argued that it must evolve in response to geopolitical changes and adopt fair decisions that are respected.
In the final stretch, Orsi reaffirmed Uruguay’s commitment to multilateralism, cooperation, international law and the peaceful settlement of disputes. He also warned that using that forum only to accuse and attack contributes little to the organization’s goals.
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