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The senator Guido Girardi described as “lack of truth”, “deception”, “misrepresentation” and “probity problem” the presentation made by the legal director of the Foreign Ministry, Franco Devillaine, and the expert Ricardo Irarrázaval, also representative of the Foreign Relations portfolio , in a hot session of the Environment Commission held this Monday afternoon, where the Chilean government’s refusal to sign the Escazú Agreement.
In addition, the PPD legislator announced that he will request a special session of the Senate to address the government’s refusal to sign the regional legal-environmental treaty.
In today’s telematic session of the Environment Commission, the Minister of Foreign Relations, Andrés Allamand, and the Minister of the Environment, Carolina Schmidt.
The harsh words of Girardi the representatives of the Chancellery had a response from the minister Allamand, who asked the president of the commission, Alfonso de Urresti (PS), call the parliamentarian to order, describing his intervention as a “diatribe”.
In the opinion of Girardi, what was said “by, in quotation marks, experts, was demolished” by the arguments presented -in the same meeting- by the director of the Center for Environmental Law of the University of Chile, Valentina Durán, and the academic in international law of the University of Concepción, Dr. Paulina Astroza.
In the session, and in response to the proposal of the representatives of the Foreign Ministry, Girardi considered “very serious what was heard at this meeting. Here there has been a lack of truth, deception, misrepresentation and a problem of probity, particularly because experts, in quotation marks, say things that are not (…) They believe us ignorant and insult us with arguments without thickness or intellectual rigor (… ) If it were as the Foreign Ministry has proposed, Chile could not have signed any treaty ”.
The PPD senator added that “human rights are not only violated when indiscriminately fired, but also when participation and access to information on productive projects are denied. This Government is going to go down in history as the worst in this matter and it does not want to protect what the State of Chile itself proposed to the world as a civilizing minimum ”.
Finally, in his speech to the Commission, he warned that he will request “a special session of Congress to see this issue because it really seems very serious to me that Chile allows human rights to be violated in environmental matters.”
Allamand replied, addressing By Urresti, that “it seems to me truly unpresentable that under your leadership, Mr. President, a space is opened up for insults and diatribes. Girardi, which speaks of deception, untruths, false arguments, all that diatribe we already know, is when people have no argument. (…) How are we going to continue the session if this is going to turn into an exchange of insults? We are not willing to do that, we have not insulted anyone and we don’t have to accept being insulted ”, he said.
The intervention of Allamand was interrupted by the senator Alexander navarro (PRO), who pointed out that the foreign minister intended to impose the government’s version.
In turn, Minister Schmidt pointed out that “it is the President of the Republic who has the power to determine whether the signing of an international treaty is convenient for Chile,” and also affirmed that “we have a tremendously strong and powerful environmental agenda. It seems unacceptable to me that this is being called into question ”.
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