The Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, called the UN High Commissioner, Volker Türk, “irresponsible” for issuing a report in which it seems to support the perpetrators of the Venezuelan population and move away from a position of “balance” and dialogue with the Venezuelan authorities.
Through a statement, the highest representative of the Venezuelan Public Ministry stated that the official treats with “lightness” the “serious violence and terrorist acts unleashed” in the days after the presidential election on July 28; facts that he points out were “instrumentalized by the so-called commandos.”
Saab maintains that “it is harmful to International Human Rights Law that its spokesperson explicitly omits each and every one of the violent and criminal plots and activities outside the Constitution and the Law that have led to factors obsessed with overthrowing by means of armed to a legitimately constituted government.”
Below is the full text of the statement:
In his latest failed intervention on the situation in Venezuela made this December 13, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has issued a series of irresponsible statements that distance him from what should be a position of balance and cooperative dialogue with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
The lightness with which the serious violence and terrorist acts unleashed after the Electoral Power announced the election results of July 28 is especially serious. The High Commissioner intends in a paragraph to hold the Venezuelan government responsible for the violence unleashed and instrumentalized by the so-called Comanditos to unleash a civil war in the country.
There is no complaint that points to members of the State security forces in acts of repression that have caused injuries or deaths. The evidence and investigations clearly point to armed individuals and criminal groups participating in the protests as the perpetrators of the shootings that caused 28 fatalities and almost 200 injuries.
This violence did not come out of nowhere. It is harmful to International Human Rights Law that its spokesperson explicitly omits each and every one of the violent and criminal plots and activities outside the Constitution and the Law that have led to factors obsessed with overthrowing a government by armed means. legitimately constituted; which to date add up to assassination attempts and coups d’état, assaults on military barracks, hiring of foreign mercenaries and insurrectionary outbreaks that have led to the massive burning of public property at the service of the communities and the murder of innocent people, both civilians and State security agents.
Likewise, it is also inconsistent for a human rights defender: its weak mention of the approximately 1,000 unilateral coercive measures that Venezuela suffers, designed to destroy its economy and generate pain and suffering for its population.
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, her colleague Ms. Alena Douhan, has said that “The devastating effect of the sanctions imposed is multiplied by the extraterritoriality and the over-compliance of the same that negatively affects the public and private sectors, Venezuelan citizens, non-governmental organizations, and national or third-country companies.” For this reason, he has repeatedly called for these measures to be lifted.
These statements by the High Commissioner are more similar to the statements of a servile spokesperson for the foreign powers that are enemies of the country and the Venezuelan people. They carbon copy the dictums and infamies that fugitives from Venezuelan justice prosecuted for brutal terrorist actions emit from their golden exile.
In this intervention, the High Commissioner seems to support the executioners who attack the population, thus becoming a protector of the perpetrators, thus tarnishing his role as alleged defender of Human Rights.
We call on you, from our dignity and sovereignty, to rectify your treatment of Venezuela and to regain balance and not allow yourself to be manipulated by those who talk about human rights and erase countries from the map in the name of democracy.
Caracas December 13, 2024.
Tarek William Saab
Attorney General of the Republic.
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