Friday, July 05, 2013

We do not need US Embassy: Morales


On Tuesday, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy refused to allow Morales' plane, which was flying from Moscow back to Bolivia, to cross their airspace. Morales' life had been put in danger by the forced emergency landing in Austria, Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca said after the incident.

Speaking on Thursday in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba where the leaders of Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina and Uruguay gathered to show their solidarity with the Bolivian president, Morales blamed the US for pressuring European states to refuse to allow his plane to fly through their airspace. He added that his plane was forced to land in the Austrian capital Vienna, and called it a violation of international law.

"We do not need the embassy of the United States," said Morales, adding that leaders of his party -- the Movement for Socialism-Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples -- had asked him to take action .... http://www.presstv.ir