The Foreign Minister of Venezuela, Yván Gil, held a meeting this Thursday with the UN resident coordinator in the country, Gianluca Rampolla, in which he again expressed the requests from the Executive of Nicolás Maduro about the “military threats” of the United Stateswhich maintains a air and naval deployment in the Caribbean Sea.
“We emphasize the urgency for the United Nations System to adopt a firm posture in the defense of our Latin American region as peace zone and the respect for the UN Charter by all States,” Gil said in a post on Telegram, where he shared photographs of the meeting.
Furthermore, he said that the meeting aimed strengthen cooperation“based on respect for the sovereignty and leadership of the organized Venezuelan people”, without offering further details.
On November 18, the UN encouraged the United States and Venezuela to establish a “dialogue” and offered them his “good offices”although he recognized then that neither party has given any signs of wanting the international organization to get involved 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 US officials, but expressed willingness to mediate diplomatically.
On Monday, the US State Department designated the so-called Cartel of the Suns as a foreign terrorist groupwhich Donald Trump’s administration assures that Maduro leads along with senior officials of the Army and the Venezuelan government.
