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

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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. “Clearly we have concerns,” Gonsalves said. “The concern for us with Ukraine, among other things, would be the terrible suffering that is taking place among peoples who are directly involved in the...