MINISTERIO
DE
RELACIONES EXTERIORES
Managua, Nicaragua
Managua, February 27th 2025
MRE/DM-VJ/014/02/2025
Mr. Gilbert F. Houngbo
Director-General
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Dear Sir,
The Government of Reconciliation and National Unity of the Republic of Nicaragua greets you, on occasion of referring to the processes of the so-called “complaints” that are processed in the Administrative Council of the International Labor Organization (ILO), and which it is intended to address at the 353rd Meeting of that Council in March 2025.
In these recurring and improper processes, the denaturing of the International Labor Organization (ILO) is evident, by acting in a politicized way, lending itself to maneuvers of destabilization and interference by taking an interest in essentially political issues belonging to the Internal Jurisdiction of States, thus acting outside the ILO's legal framework, which is harmful and damages Nicaragua’s National Sovereignty and the Self-determination of our People.
The Republic of Nicaragua with the constitutional reforms in force on February 18th 2025, is constituted as a Revolutionary, Free, Sovereign and Independent State, which recognizes the Person, the Family and the Community as essential protagonists, the origin and end of its management as a Direct Democracy; assuming the task of guaranteeing Sovereignty, Security and Peace, in the daily advances of struggle against injustice, inherited poverty, while seeking human development and the common good, of each and every Nicaraguan.
The decisions that the ILO Administrative Council has been taking are biased, lack objectivity, based on prejudiced information and reports from Organizations that have lent themselves to the maneuvers of those who have attempted and continue to attempt to act against Peace and tranquility and who are the authors of multiple murders, kidnappings, rapes, aberrations and outrages against the Nicaraguan people, also causing destruction and unquantifiable damage to the national economy.
For the foregoing reasons, the Government of the Republic of Nicaragua, on the basis of Article 1, paragraph 5 of the ILO Constitution, communicates its sovereign and irrevocable decision to withdraw from that Organization.
Greetings,
Valdrack Jaentschke
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Republica of Nicaragua