The government of Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced Sunday that it is backtracking on its conflict with the United States (U.S.) by announcing that it will accept the deportation of its citizens. teleSUR
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00:00The government of Colombia, through its foreign ministry, informed on Sunday that the tense
00:04situation created with the United States and the South American nation's inadmissibility
00:08of two military flights with migrants has been overcome.
00:11The Colombian government accepted the conditions set by the White House for the deportations.
00:16According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Luis Gilberto Murillo, he and the ambassador
00:20in the United States Daniel Garcia Peña will travel in the next hours to Washington to
00:25hold high-level meetings that will follow up on the agreements resulting from the joint
00:28work and exchange of diplomatic notes that took place on Sunday between the two governments.
00:33Murillo stated that Colombia will continue to receive those who return as deportees,
00:37guaranteeing them dignified conditions as citizens with rights.
00:41The government of Colombia informs that we have overcome the impasse with the government
01:02of the United States.
01:04In this context, the foreign minister Luis Gilberto Murillo and ambassador Daniel Garcia
01:11Peña will travel to Washington in the next few days to hold high-level meetings to follow
01:18up on the agreements resulting from the joint work that led to the exchange of diplomatic
01:24notes between the two governments.
01:33We will continue to receive the Colombian men and women who return as deportees, guaranteeing
01:39them dignified conditions as citizens with rights.
01:44The government of Colombia, under the directive of President Gustavo Petro, has arranged for
01:50the presidential plane to facilitate the return of the Colombian nationals who were to arrive
01:56in the country today in the morning, hours on deportation flight.
02:02The Colombian ratifies that diplomatic channels of dialogue will be maintained to guarantee
02:06the rights, national interests and dignity of our citizens.