Foreign Minister Yván Gil said that “the threat and aggression against a region declared a zone of peace continues” by the US. The Chavista administration considers that the presence of the United States in the Caribbean seeks to promote a “regime change” to take advantage of Venezuelan resources.
The administration of Nicolás Maduro asked the United Nations this Sunday to use its “mechanisms to defend the peace and sovereignty of all nations,” in the face of the military deployment of the United States in the Caribbean Sea for operations that, it claims, seek to dismantle drug trafficking by sea to the north.
“We maintain the call to the entire United Nations system and multilateral organizations to use their mechanisms to defend the peace and sovereignty of all nations, a task that has been conferred upon them by the people of the world,” said Foreign Minister Yván Gil, in a message by Telegram.
The official thanked the UN for its position in rejecting the United States attacks against boats that were allegedly transporting drugs in Caribbean and Pacific waters.
However, he said that “the threat and aggression against a region declared a zone of peace continues.” The Chavista administration considers that the US presence in the Caribbean seeks to promote a “regime change” to take advantage of Venezuelan resources.
On October 31, the UN accused the United States Government of “violating international law” with these attacks and stated that the people on board the vessels were victims of “extrajudicial executions.”
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, then expressed that these “attacks, and their increasing human cost, are unacceptable”, which is why, he considered, they must stop “regardless of the alleged crimes attributed to them.”
Since September, the US War Department has reported about twenty attacks against ships in the Caribbean and the Pacific that, it claims, were loaded with drugs. The operations have left at least 66 people, who are linked to terrorist organizations.
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