[Politics] Former President Piñera supports the Government for the opening of an embassy in Palestine: "It is a step forward"

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Former President Sebastián Piñera described the current government's decision to open a Chilean embassy in Palestine as a "step forward". The announcement was made yesterday by President Gabriel Boric, during a Christmas ceremony held at the Palestinian Club in the Las Condes commune. In this regard, Piñera highlighted the announcement by the head of state and recalled the progress made during his administration in favor of the Palestinian people.

"We in our government had to establish the Chilean embassy in Palestine through a visiting ambassador. And now President Boric has announced the opening of an embassy. It is a step forward," said the former president after participating in a session of the Future Challenges commission. As he said, "Chile has a very clear policy: it recognizes and respects the right of the Palestinian people and the Israeli people to live in a sovereign, autonomous state, in peace, with freedom and safe borders. And that is the policy that Chile has always Following". "Chile recognized both states a long time ago. I remember that one of the first actions of our first government, and we discussed this with the president of Palestine, Mahmud Abás, was to recognize the right of Palestine to be an observer state in the United Nations United States and we support him in that. I visited Palestine twice and I believe that Palestine and the Palestinian people, like the Israeli people, have the right to a free, sovereign, autonomous state, with known and secure borders," he added.

 

 

Role of former presidents in the new Constitution On the other hand, Piñera was open to collaborating in the new constitutional process both with the commission of experts and with the constitutional council. "I think that the former presidents of the Republic who had to govern Chile have accumulated very valuable experience, and also, since the former presidents have good relations with each other, because they respect each other, they consult each other. As president, I always consulted the former presidents, they have I think it would be very valuable for presidents or former presidents to give an opinion on constitutional reform, on how to deal with major problems such as drought, climate change or the modernization of the State, and I'm sure that all the former presidents of Chile are going to be willing to collaborate," he said.

In his opinion, "the former presidents have a lot to contribute and therefore it would seem very good to me that the council of experts or the constitutional commission invite the presidents and learn about their proposals, their ideas." Along with this, he called for "not repeating" the mistakes made by the Convention in the previous process. "I hope that this agreement by Chile, which will allow us a second chance after the very bad project presented by the Constitutional Convention, will allow us to have a new social pact, a new agreement that gives us stability and tranquility, that we all respect it and we feel respected," he emphasized.

 

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