Boric aims to mimic Canada's gun control policy

Boric criticizes that Venezuela and Nicaragua have been excluded from the IX Summit of the Americas

MADRID, 7 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, has assured this Monday that he intends to imitate the arms control policy carried out by Canada, after a bilateral meeting with the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, in Ottawa.

"We have discussed details about the arms restriction policy that has been promoted in Canada for quite some time, which has had very good results and which, in Chile, we also want to imitate, because it is good to replicate good ideas in our countries. ", Boric has declared, as reported by the Chilean newspaper 'El Mostrador'.

Thus, the president has specified that "so that there are no doubts. We are going to persecute them (weapons) and eliminate criminals, drug traffickers, groups that believe that progress can be made through violence. But we do not want them to be in the civil society".

"For this reason, we are going to present a project soon for the prohibition of possession of weapons and that nobody here should be scared, that this is for the good of all, because we know, here on the border (with the United States), how societies end who end up arming themselves to the teeth to exercise justice by their own hands. That doesn't work," he stressed.

In this sense, the Chilean president has called for improving international legislation regarding weapons, in order to raise awareness about the problem.

"We have to promote international legislation. Hopefully an awareness will be generated, beyond our borders, that the possession of weapons is bad for societies. That is why we do it from Chile to Canada, hopefully with all the countries that are close, hopefully it will be of some use", emphasized the president of Chile.

Boric explained that during the meeting he held talks with Trudeau on economic issues, with the aim of deepening the free trade agreement that both nations signed 25 years ago.

The president began a tour of North America in Canada, which is part of his participation in the IX Summit of the Americas held in Los Angeles, United States.

Boric has criticized that Venezuela and Nicaragua have been excluded from the summit and has stressed that Chile attends "with the conviction that multilateral dialogue spaces are those that will allow building better relations between countries, where no one is going to be saved itself, but we have to unite to have better developments in our nations", as reported by the Chilean radio station ADN.

In his opinion, "exclusion is not the way to go and has not worked historically, and when the United States tries to exclude certain countries, what it finally does is reinforce the position they have in their own places. And we believe that it is a mistake." ".

Likewise, he explained that the Chilean position will be presented at the summit, but "without stopping raising our voices to defend Human Rights, to condemn political imprisonment, to express Chile's concern regarding the migratory crisis that, in addition, Chile It has been one of the countries that has received the most Venezuelans as a result of this crisis."

The president of Chile has ruled that in these types of meetings the countries need to "work with greater solidarity."