The Venezuelan government, through the Foreign Ministry, responded to a statement from the Brazilian Foreign Office (Itamaraty), in which they placed themselves in the role of victims of the Venezuelan response to the veto at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, when in reality they were the perpetrators and this is recognized by the international community.
The text of the Venezuelan response expresses its repudiation of the “indefensible statement drafted by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry (Itamaraty), in which it tries to deceive the international community, posing as victims in a situation where they have clearly acted as victimizers.”
He assures that Itamaraty’s veto against Venezuela in the BRICS has surprised “Brazilian, Venezuelan and Latin American society.”
It clarifies that Venezuela has clearly demonstrated “how Itamaraty has undertaken a brazen and rude aggression against the Constitutional President Nicolás Maduro Moros, the institutions and public powers, as well as Venezuelan society”, in what they consider a campaign that violates what is established in the principles of the United Nations Charter.
The text states that this attitude of the foreign ministry of the neighboring country violates even the Brazilian constitution, which in its mandate rejects interference in the internal affairs of other countries.
He adds that Itamaraty uses the arguments of having served as a witness in the Barbados Agreements, as an excuse to intervene in the internal affairs of Venezuela and is used as a “ruse that must cease immediately, since the aforementioned agreements were exclusively developed by Venezuelans.”
The text ends by urging the Foreign Ministry to desist from interfering in the internal affairs of Venezuela “avoiding deterioration of diplomatic relations between both countries”, for which they appeal to professional conduct in their actions.
