July 26, 2006
Bachelet: Chile not to accept any pressure

(El Universal) - "Chilean President Michelle Bachelet spoke up and said Chile will accept no pressure to decide on potential support to Venezuela's attempts at becoming non-permanent member of the United Nations (UN) Security Council.

"Chile has shown in the past that is does not accept any pressure, from anywhere, and under my government this will be not different," the ruler clarified.

"Chile has had in the past, has presently, and I am certain that it will have in the future, an autonomous, independent foreign policy," she stated, as quoted by AFP.

In Washington, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told his Chilean counterpart Vivianne Blanlot, about the US concern for Venezuela's nomination to the UN Security Council (...)".