translated from Spanish: Tarud: “The government acts with improvisation and recklessness in foreign policy”

Former deputy Jorge Tarud criticized Foreign Minister Roberto Ampuero, and also called on the currency to reconsider and avoid clashes over a policy that must be state. Tarud pointed out that “since the return to democracy foreign policy has been a state and we always work with unity, we are in the government or in the opposition. This government broke that good and profitable position for the country and acted with improvisation and recklessness in foreign policy. ” In the same line, the former ambassador also added that “I do not imagine any other president of Chile who could go to do the act of Cúcuta or personally support the immigration pact in the United Nations for, 48 hours after it must ratify, change positions.” In this same tone, Tarud emphasized that “Chile has had reliability and credibility in the international community, important factors in the management of foreign relations. Never, no other government, including Sebastián Piñera’s first term, used foreign policy for internal contingency. ” In addition, he stressed that “rebuilding our image cost a lot of work and for many years, after having 17 years of dictatorship. Damaging our prestige can be done in a short time just as Bolsonaro has done with Brazil. ” “I call on President Piñera to rectify and retake the path of work together and unitary in foreign policy, which so many benefits he reported to the country in almost 3 decades and not continue to harm Chile in terms of surveys that have not been favorable” , the former ambassador concluded.

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