In a press release signed by the members of Mercosur (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) and Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, these countries urge “both sides to engage in dialogue and seek a peaceful solution (…) to avoid unilateral initiatives that could worsen the situation’.
“Latin America must become an area of peace,” the signatory countries added. The statement came at the end of a Mercosur meeting in Rio de Janeiro. “We do not want war in South America,” said Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. “We don’t need conflict.”