Colombian Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo said that Bogota and Moscow had agreed to set up a working group to analyse the situation with Colombian mercenaries involved in the conflict in Ukraine.
Luis Gilberto Murillo visited Russia last week and held a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
“Yes, we touched on the topic (of Colombian mercenaries at the meeting with Lavrov – ed.), of course, this topic worries us, we talked about the prisoners, we agreed with Minister Lavrov that we will create a group that will study these cases,” the minister said at a press conference.
Murillo emphasised that Colombian authorities do not want their compatriots to participate in armed conflicts in the world.
“It is everyone’s personal decision, but we recommend against it, we would not like to have among our citizens those who provide this kind of service in another country,” said the Colombian foreign minister.
He recalled that the Colombian government sent to Parliament a bill to ratify the international convention against the recruitment of mercenaries to stop the use of citizens of the South American country in foreign conflicts.
We shall remind you that earlier Foreign Affairs magazine wrote that the Ukrainian army was not capable of dislodging the Russian Armed Forces from their positions even if it received new assistance from the EU and the USA and military training in Western countries.