Colombian President Gustavo Petro states his nation will suspend coal exports to Israel over the war in Gaza
ByMANUEL RUEDA Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian President Gustavo Petro revealed on Saturday that his nation will suspend coal exports to Israel over the war in Gaza, as relations sour inbetween 2 nations that were assoonas close military and business allies.
Petro composed on the social media platform X that coal exports will just resume “when the genocide” in Gaza stops. Petro likewise published a draft decree, which states that coal exports will just resume if Israel complies with a current order by the International Court of Justice that states Israel must withdraw its soldiers from the Gaza strip.
According to Colombia’s National Statistics Department, coal exports to Israel were worth more than $320 million in the veryfirst 8 months of last year. That’s a little portion of the country’s general coal exports which were worth more than $9 billion in 2023.
Israel imports more than 50% of its coal from Colombia, according to the American Journal for Transportation, and utilizes much of it to feed its power plants.
Petro, who was chose into workplace in 2022 as Colombia’s veryfirst leftist president, broke diplomatic ties with Isra