Since November 23, asylum seekers at the Argentine Embassy in Caracas have reported siege by security officials. They monitor them with drones and in the surrounding maps, as well as preventing the entry of water and interrupting the light.
The foreign ministries of Uruguay, the Dominican Republic and Paraguay joined the call made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina to the Venezuelan authorities to grant safe conduct to the six opponents, linked to Vente Venezuela, who are asylum in the Embassy of The South American nation has been in Caracas for eight months and has been under siege for several days by police officials and other security agencies.
Uruguay, through a statement issued in social networksexpresses its concern about the current situation of the six opponents within the Argentine Embassy and the refusal to grant them the document to leave the country; asking then for respect for the Vienna and Caracas Conventions, which is why it demands that these people be allowed to leave with the guarantee of protection of their life, freedom and personal safety.
Given the situation of political asylum seekers in the Argentine Embassy in Caracas: pic.twitter.com/BsueHuhDQX
— Uruguayan Foreign Ministry 🇺🇾 (@CancilleriaUy) December 9, 2024
Using the same platformParaguay asks for respect for International Law so that, in the shortest possible time, safe passage is given to opponents so that they can travel to Argentina without delay in a safe manner; this due to the delicate state of health of these people.
Paraguay supports the request of the Argentine Republic to the Venezuelan authorities to grant safe passage provided for in the Convention on Diplomatic Asylum in the shortest possible time, so that the six people granted asylum in its embassy can leave…
— Ministry of Foreign Affairs (@mreparaguay) December 9, 2024
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Dominican RepublicIn addition to reiterating the call made by the foreign ministries of Uruguay and Paraguay, he recalled that this request “in accordance with Public International Law, the humanitarian sense and the common sense that must prevail.”
He @MIREXRD stands in solidarity with the claim of the @Cancilleria_Ar that the Venezuelan authorities grant without delay the safe conduct established under the 1954 Asylum Convention, so that the six people granted asylum in their embassy in Caracas can leave expeditiously…
— Dominican Republic Ministry of Foreign Affairs (@MIREXRD) December 8, 2024
He December 7ththe presidents of Argentina, Javier Milei; Paraguay, Santiago Peña, and Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, expressed their “extreme concern about the situation in Venezuela and reaffirmed their commitment to the “defense and strengthening” of democratic institutions.
This is highlighted by a statement published this December 7 on the official Mercosur website, which also details that both Bolivia and Chile joined said document due to the non-publication of the disaggregated results of the presidential elections held on December 28. of July.
That same day, the Government of Argentina demanded that Nicolás Maduro’s administration “immediately” deliver the safe passages.
“The Argentine Foreign Ministry expresses its utmost concern regarding the alarming and serious situation at the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, where the lives of six asylum seekers face imminent danger,” said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Javier Milei in a statement.
Recently, the asylum seekers – in the voice of Omar Gonzalez– denounced that the siege by state security forces has intensified.
Through a video posted on social networks, González warned that the food and medicine deliverers who carry orders to the legation are detained in the different checkpoints that are arranged around the diplomatic headquarters and “they accuse them of being suspected of terrorism.” », just as they warn them not to collaborate with those inside the Embassy.
Likewise, he said that there are “surveillance and espionage centers” in the vicinity of the legation with “cameramen and photographers.” In addition, he pointed out that there are drone flights to carry out permanent surveillance at the Argentine Embassy, this while they are without electricity and without the possibility of bringing in cisterns for drinking water.
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