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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Lisa O'Carroll Brussels correspondent

Nicaragua fails to back censure of Russia at end of EU-Latin America summit

Alberto Fernandez, Ralph Gonsalves, Charles Michel and Ursula von der Leyen at the end of the summit in Brussels
From left: Argentina’s president Alberto Fernandez, Celac president Ralph Gonsalves, European Council president Charles Michel and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen at the summit. Photograph: Thierry Monasse/Getty Images

EU leaders have failed to persuade all of their Latin America and Caribbean counterparts to strongly condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, despite watering down a joint statement closing a two-day summit in Brussels.

Ralph Gonsalves, the president of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), brushed off a row after Nicaragua failed to agree to the sole paragraph on the war in the final 41-paragraph communique.

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