La Paz__ Bolivia continues today the preparations for the World Conference of Peoples, which will have as its central theme the situation of migrants and the rejection of the US decision to build a wall on the border with Mexico, Prensa Latina reports.

Towards universal citizenship and a world without walls is the motto of the summit, scheduled for June 20 and 21 in Tiquipaya, department of Cochabamba.

We are calling on social organizations, indigenous peoples, personalities, intellectuals and governments for this conference, Bolivian Foreign Minister Fernando Huanacuni said.

The head of the diplomacy traveled to Cochabamba to meet with Governor Ivan Canelas and authorities of the municipalities of Cercado and Tiquipaya, in order to organize the event.

He also plans to meet with members of the rectory of Universidad del Valle, in the same department.

According to the Chancellor, one of the purposes of the meeting is to make the concept of universal citizenship understood in its real magnitude around the world.

Last March, the head of state Evo Morales summoned the summit, in response to anti-immigrant policies promoted by US President Donald Trump.

"It is not possible that there are walls and barriers for migrants, Latinos and refugees and there are no walls and barriers for military interventions that plunder the natural resources of the peoples," Evo said on that occasion.

The call for the Peoples’ World Conference was supported during the last summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), held in Caracas.

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