Mexico City – De organisatie van progressieve politieke partijen in Latijns-Amerika en de Cariben (COPPPAL) keurt de wijze waarop de Nederlands regering Curaçao, Aruba en Sint Maarten voorwaarden oplegt om voor coronaleningen in aanmerking te komen in stevige bewoordingen af. Dat blijkt uit een brief die COPPPAL-president Alejandro Moreno Cardenas aan premier Mark Rutte heeft geschreven.
De dekolonisatiecommissie van COPPPAL, waarbij 60 partijen uit 29 landen zijn aangesloten, heeft meerdere klachten ontvangen over de handelwijze van Nederland jegens de Caribische delen van het Koninkrijk. De zorgen betreffen niet alleen Curaçao, Aruba en Sint Maarten, maar ook Bonaire, Sint Eustatius en Saba.
Moreno Cardenas stelt dat de voorwaarden een aantasting betekenen van de autonomie van de CAS-landen en dat met de oprichting door Nederland van een hervormingsentiteit de klok wordt teruggezet. Hij benadrukt dat COPPPAL ‘solidair is met de strijd van onze broeders en hun volkeren’.
COPPPAL is van plan haar zorgen over te brengen aan tal van internationale organisaties waaronder de VN en de EU. Moreno Cardenas roept Rutte op om in dialoog met de Caribische delen van het Koninkrijk een oplossing te zoeken. Hieronder de gehele brief
Mexico City, August 13, 2020
Council of Minister of the Netherlands
Excellent Mark Rutte
Prime Minister
Honorable Advice
In my capacity as president of the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean (COPPPAL), consisting of more than 60 progressive parties from 29 countries, I address you institutionally, to express firmly our repudiation of the colonialism in all its old and new forms, according to the mandate emanating from the ′′ Declaration of Oaxaca “, which in 1979 brought COPPPAL to life.
In its struggle to achieve just, prosperous, democratic and equal Latin American and Caribbean societies against foreign non-intervention and in favor of the sovereign decision of the peoples, our Conference assumes that no country of our America will truly be free, if not all Latin American and Caribbean peoples are.
In that same vein, our multilaternal organization is always committed to the peaceful resolution of disputes and for all those measures that encourage peace.
Today, ladies and gentlemen, the political parties that make up COPPPAL, we look with concern at the situation facing Aruba, Curacao, Sint Maarten, as well as Bonaire, Statia and Saba, the product of the health emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which led them to lose 80 percent of their main currency generating activity, which is tourism. As you know, that circumstance has caused an economic crisis of enormous proportions in these territories.
Over the past few months, the COPPPAL Decolonization Commission and this Presidency have received and studied, continuous complaints from our sister parties in the region, regarding the treatment received by their countries of their applications for emergency loans, made to the Kingdom of The Netherlands. These requests requested that the aforementioned credits be given to them on the same terms as Italy and Spain, countries to which the Kingdom lent billions of euros without any condition, for the fight to COVID 19, and thus could prevent their economies from collapse. However, applications have been denied in these terms. They were answered that to access multimedia financial support, at interest-free rates, the islands making up the Kingdom of the Netherlands should meet unmet requirements, for violations not only of historical autonomy agreements between them and the Kingdom , but international law, such as loson, among others, demands to allow greater interference by the Kingdom in the internal affairs of these Caribbean countries.
The case of Aruba is exemplified, however enjoying complete autonomy since 1986, now, in exchange for financial aid to overcome the crisis, the Kingdom of the Netherlands seeks to impose the conditions listed below, and which result in injuries to your sovereignty. In that same case you find the rest of the countries. For these reasons, the more than 60 progressive political parties that make up COPPPAL, we stand in solidarity with the struggle of our brothers and their peoples, and express our absolute rejection of the pretentions of imposing the following conditions:
First – Kingdom Act to create an entity that in practice eliminates tasks of the Home Government while eliminating tasks of Parliament.
Second – Kingdom Act for Financial Oversight.
Both laws, we consider, give the Kingdom of the Netherlands an interference and violating autonomy agreements, which nullifies the ability of these countries to appeal any decision taken by Netherlands. Even more so, the aforementioned laws have no expiration. It seems to us that with these illegitimate legal pretentions, the hands of the clock of history, to have a direct intervention in the management of the government of these countries, which long ago gained its autonomy.
Additionally, we find that these laws are totally restrictive and violating human rights by preventing Aruba, Curacao and St Maarten from turning to the highest Council body in the Kingdom for guidance.
Ladies and gentlemen Ministers of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, for progressive COPPPAL parties, it is at least paradoxical that while in the European Union, the Kingdom of the Netherlands strives to be recognized in the defence and protection of rights Human rights and democratic values, in the Caribbean repeatedly incurs pressure violating the fundamental rights of individuals and their governments, to try to return to colonialist schemes that in the midst of the st century are an embarrassment to humanity and an affront to our region.
Therefore, in the most vigorous way we reject these attempts to return to ancient practices of domination already overcome, and urge the Kingdom of the Netherlands to reconsider its conduct and the progressive parties of Holland, to sympathize with these struggles of the Caribbean peoples and Latin Americans. Otherwise these attitudes will continue to cause not only the outrage of our America and the world, but our militant decision for their stop.
In that order of ideas, and in the face of the above-mentioned events that hurt Aruba, Curacao, St Maarten, Bonaire, Statia and Saba, COPPPAL has requested urgent meetings with the UN Decolonization Committee, CARICOM, OAS, the European Union, Parlacen, Parlatino, Unasur, Celac, as well as ICAP and CAP, to expose all the grievances exposed here.
We vote because the path of dialogue is restarted and a negotiating table can be established, between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the governments of Aruba, Curacao, St Maarten, Bonaire, Statia and Saba, which allows the conflict to be overcome, with full respect for previous autonomy agreements and international law. COPPPAL will always be vigilant and willing to contribute its best trades in the construction of a peaceful solution to this dispute.
Sincerely
Alejandro Moreno Cardenas
President
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