Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz (second right) and Chile's President Gabriel Boric (second left) sit during their bilateral meeting during the third EU-CELAC summit that brings together leaders of the EU and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, in Brussels, Belgium, Tuesday, July 18, 2023
TENSION rose during the closing day of a summit between European Union and Latin American leaders today over a diplomatic fracas around the war in Ukraine.
Ambassadors worked through much of the night and into this afternoon to find even the blandest text for a joint post-summit statement on the Russian invasion.
Talks were hung up over the reservations of Nicaragua’s delegation, the toughest opposition throughout the summit.
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