BOGOTA – Colombia’s leftist president-elect Gustavo Petro named long-time politician and peace envoy Alvaro Leyva as the primary member of his future cupboard on Saturday, forward of Petro’s August inauguration.
Leyva, 79, is well-known for his a long time of labor below presidents from a number of events to convey varied armed teams, together with the M-19 rebels, of which Petro was a member as a younger man, to the negotiating desk.
He participated in talks that led to a 2016 peace cope with the FARC rebels.
“Alvaro Leyva Duran might be our minister of international relations. He might be a international minister of peace,” Petro tweeted early on Saturday. “Colombia will contribute to the world all its efforts to beat the local weather disaster and from the world we anticipate each effort to beat our endemic violence.”
Petro has mentioned he needs to shift Colombia’s international coverage relationships away from the struggle on medicine and towards the battle in opposition to local weather change, which can mark a big sea change particularly for the Andean nation’s partnership with its prime ally the US.The previous senator served as vitality minister below conservative President Belisario Betancur.
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