translated from Spanish: Ricardo Lagos asks ignore reactions in Bolivia: “Chile has more important issues”

“I would forget I continue talking about Bolivia. I would like to the Foreign Ministry to talk of other things… “That is my point of view: Chile has more important issues”. Lakes compared the national triumph in the Hague with a football championship, “someone might say, it was a 8-0, because they rejected them all arguments”. In the same line of soccer, Lagos added, “when you are in politics, makes and loses much, many times. Then, when you win, you should have some modesty, right? No more bragging. And when you lose, better you are comfort and is lama his injuries quiet, without crying, because you also have to have a bit of dignity,”about the reactions that has been Evo Morales after the ruling and their continuous sayings to Chile, President He said that “I would look to the ceiling. Until it is relieved, okay. But do not give ball: don’t react to that, because then the Chile-Bolivia theme stays, and what I want is to disappear the Chile-Bolivia issue, in the sense that it is not a subject that remove us a dream. We have tranquility, it has recognized our right, we keep quiet for life”. The former head of State did not want to refer this respect if Evo Morales is or not a “valid interlocutor” for Chile, which have called into question, among others, his own son, Ricardo Lagos Weber. “(Evo Morales) if the (re) elected President, you have to negotiate with him, but this is a Bolivian issue”, insisted: “if they want to start the dialogue and it (Evo Morales) is still President, he must be talking. Not be can walk calling Presidents according to taste. Another thing is to be told that the way in which referred to Chile is inadequate, and that’s okay”, he said.



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