General Secretary of the Organization of American States (OAS) Jose Miguel Insulza on Wednesday defended the role of the organization in dealing with the Bolivian turmoil, while the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) appointed an envoy for the crisis.
Insulza said on a local radio program that the UNASUR summit on easing the tension in Bolivia has agreed to include OAS as an observer in the peace talks.
He said it was "completely wrong" that the OAS had been excluded from the dialogue aimed at solving the Bolivian crisis.
The general secretary said, "UNASUR was born a few months ago, so we have to get used to discussing South American issues within the UNASUR, and not in the OAS."
On Thursday, the senior OAS official will travel to La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia, to meet with Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca and President Evo Morales.
Meanwhile, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, UNASUR's temporary president, on Wednesday appointed former Chilean Foreign Minister Juan Gabriel Valdes as the organization's envoy to coordinate the dialogue between the Bolivian government and the opposition forces.
Bachelet said that she appointed Valades because she could not "personally" attend the talks in Bolivia.
Source:Xinhua
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