Aruba doesn’t complain to Alabama with its 132 missing citizens
DIARIO Aruba
11/9/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN): Tuesday afternoon, Alabama Governor Bob Riley asked for a boycott against Aruba. Different American TV channels interrupted their programming to give this extra bulletin.
Governor Riley asked for no one to travel to Aruba until authorities in Aruba cooperate better with the family of Natalee Holloway, who disappeared May 30.
Riley asked the governors of the other 49 states of America to join him in this boycott, in the name of Natalee Holloway’s family. The mother of Natalee Holloway, Beth Twitty joined Riley in Alabama for the announcement of the boycott.
According to the mother, authorities in Aruba failed to adequately investigate the possible murder of her daughter, who was with a young teenager, Joran van der Slot and Surinamese brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe, on the night she disappeared.
The Prime Minister of Aruba reacted in a press conference that he won’t be asking for Governor Riley to change his Attorney General to investigate the 132 missing persons in Alabama. Here he showed a document obtained via the Internet, which shows all the persons who have gone missing in Alabama.
A fraction of the AVP also asked to call for a state meeting, where it asked for a declaration from the Minister of Tourism, Minister President as well as from those of the Strategic Task Force.
The attack against Aruba came first from the American press. Holland has said that it can’t intervene because it was a ‘press issue’.
However, now that the Republican Governor of a country that is an ally of Holland’s has asked for a boycott, now The Hague has to understand that the Governor has turned this into a ‘political issue’.
This has put Aruba’s government instantly in action and as of Tuesday it used all diplomatic channels necessary to send and get information, and today the plenipotentiary minister [ambassador?] met with members of the Alabama Congress. The government of Aruba issued an official declaration which it will deliver to the Dutch Ambassador in Washington so that he can hand it over to the State Department. The Aruban Parliament issued a declaration and the letter will go to the Dutch Parliament and the Permanent Commission.
[translated by Getagrip]
