Resolution demands the release of political prisoners and promotes that the Permanent Council of the OAS continue to report on the situation in Nicaragua
HAVANA TIMES – The foreign ministers gathered at the 54th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS), held in Asuncion, Paraguay, approved by acclamation a resolution urging “the States of the hemisphere to redouble their efforts to facilitate, through individual or collective actions, the cessation of human rights violations” in Nicaragua.
The resolution, approved by the 32 OAS member countries — Nicaragua and Venezuela are not part of the regional OAS organization — demands that the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo “immediately and unconditionally release all persons who have been deprived of their liberty for political or religious reasons.”
The resolution was promoted by Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, the United States, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, and Antigua and Barbuda.
Content of the Resolution on Nicaragua
The resolution calls on OAS member states to take measures to “end ideological persecution whether political or religious” in Nicaragua.
It also urges “the cessation of all human rights violations and to take effective measures for the restoration of democratic institutions,
