Foreign Minister Yván Gil met with the UN resident coordinator in Venezuela to press for a firm stance from the organization regarding the US military deployment. They also discussed strengthening cooperation, “based on respect for sovereignty and the leadership of the organized Venezuelan people.”
The administration of Nicolás Maduro urged the United Nations (UN) on Thursday the 27th to take a “firm stance” in the face of what they consider the “military threats” from the United States after its deployment in the Caribbean, which has been in place since mid-August.
This was reported by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, after a meeting with the UN resident coordinator in the country, Gianluca Rampolla.
“We underline the urgency for the United Nations System to adopt a firm position in the defense of our Latin American region as a zone of peace and respect for the Charter of the United Nations by all States,” he said in a publication on Telegram, where he shared photographs of the meeting.
In addition, he said that the meeting aimed to strengthen cooperation, “based on respect for sovereignty and the leadership of the organized Venezuelan people,” without offering further details.
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On November 18, the UN encouraged the US and Venezuela to establish a “dialogue” and offered them its “good offices”, although it recognized that neither party has given any signs of wanting the international organization to “get involved” in their dispute as a mediator.
The spokesman for the General Secretariat, Farhan Haq, did not clarify at that time whether the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, has discussed his potential actions in Venezuela with United States officials, but expressed willingness to mediate diplomatically taking into account that Maduro has expressed a willingness to dialogue.
This Thursday the 27th, Nicolás Maduro said he was confident of victory in case his country declares itself as a “republic in arms”, in the midst of the US military deployment in the Caribbean Sea, and asked the air force to be “alert and ready.”
Meanwhile, the US State Department designated the so-called “Cartel of the Suns” as a foreign terrorist group. In addition, they have pointed out that Maduro leads this structure along with senior Army officials.
Added to this scenario of tensions is an air connectivity crisis due to the cancellation of international flights, after the United States urged “extreme caution” when flying over Venezuelan territory and the southern Caribbean in the face of what it considers “a potentially dangerous situation” in the area.
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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