Brasilia, Mar 20 (Prensa Latina) the Organization of American States (OAS) general secretary Jose Miguel Insulza termed Thursday inadmissible the Colombian government's demand to invade Ecuador.
Interviewed in the Brazilian newspaper "O Globo," Insulza noted that the OAS does not considered the right of legitimate defense demanded by Colombia to invade Ecuador on March 1, because only the attacked countries have right to defend itself.
According to the OAS Charter article 22, the conditions of legitimate defense exist, when a country attacks another one and, in that case, the attacked nation has right to defend itself, he stated.
"When a country invades another territory has no right to complain later, because it does not proceed in legitimate defense," stated Insulza saying that we can not pursue an irregular group in another state without that government's authorization.
To solve the crisis the Colombian aggression has set up to the Ecuadorian sovereignty, the OAS official stressed that the first thing would be to create a commission in the bordering zone that is in contact with both states and their organizations.
"That is not easy, because the border has hundreds of miles and I have no clear yet where to locate those people," noted Insulza by asking O Globo on adopted measures to re-establish confidence between Quito and Bogota.
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All these 'socialist' states pussy-foot around with the issue of the legal rights of states, and 'national integrity', and borders, etc. -- mostly because the 800 lb. gorilla of imperialism continues to rampage around the planet, just looking for excuses to commit mayhem on its targets 'legally'. However, this contingent stress on bourgeois national legality is totally in contradiction to the fundamental right of the world working-class to struggle in solidarity for Socialism across all borders, without limitation. And in fact, no amount of bourgeois lawmaking -- and no number of bourgeois laws or subterfuges or 'international law' or 'covenants' -- will ever abrogate this right. It is a right born of the nature of human reality -- and every much a right for all as the right to exist and be free. Which seems to be a problem with those who intend to continue enslaving us all.
ReplyDeleteAs long as the leaderships of the present 'socialist' countries continue to pay lip service to this farce of bourgeois nationalism -- let alone actually believe in it, as the squalid and opportunistic social-democrats do -- they will continue to confuse the world working-class as to the goal we must all be aiming for: obliteration of the impediment of 'national' states and borders, which are holding back the internationalist brotherhood of all humankind. And which is our right -- and a right far beyond the mere 'rights' of citizenship of some abstract bourgeois national state or other.