The deputy and first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, warned this Monday that the procedures against the airplane of the company Emtrasurwhich was held in Argentina with Venezuelan and Iranian crew members, seek to generate a false positive operation.
“What are they putting together a false positive? Of course, of course, there are no doubts about that, we have no doubts (…) There are already people who have declared, not us, but those countries who have declared that there are malicious procedures against that plane,” he asserted after concluding the weekly meeting of the PSUV national leadership.
He asserted that Venezuela hopes to resolve this incident through diplomatic channels and that the national government “is doing all the pertinent procedures with the Argentine authorities.”
“We hope that it will be resolved diplomatically as appropriate, and that the plane will return to where it has to return, that it will continue to carry out the work it does,” he said.
The emtrasur plane was hired by the auto parts company Faurecia, supplier of Volkswagen, to bring spare parts and auto parts to Argentina from the Mexican city of Querétaro.
When on Monday June 6 everything was ready to load the airplane of fuel, a Shell lawyer warned that the company could have problems with the United States and refused to provide the fuel.
The next day the Jumbo paid for a cargo of J1 -what planes use- at YPF and Axion to materialize in Montevideo, Uruguay. Therefore, the flight plan was arranged there. Again, there was approval from the Argentine and Uruguayan authorities: no flight can leave without the approval of both parties.
With the plane already on its way, and with only 20 tons of J1 (the minimum tolerable is 15 tons), they were informed from the control tower in Uruguay that they had been denied landing “due to lack of authorization,” according to Judge Federico Villena. in your writing.
Therefore, the Jumbo returned to Ezeiza where, once again, there was an intense inspection of the plane, without any result and without an order of raid.
In the midst of this scenario, two Israeli associations in Argentina affirmed that the detention of the plane must be clarified urgently, because the Emtrasur company is linked to the Iranian company Mahan Air, sanctioned by the US “for its links with activities terrorists»
Uruguay responds and hides behind sovereignty
The Foreign Minister of Uruguay, Francisco Bustillo, responded this Monday to the questions of the Venezuelan Government and said that his country is sovereign and that is why he prevented the entry into its territory on June 8 of the Emtrasur aircraft.
“We are sovereign and make our own decisions”, Bustillo affirmed at a press conference, according to the local newspaper The country.
Venezuela rejected last week, through a statement from the Foreign Ministry, the decision of the Uruguayan aeronautical authority to revoke Emtrasur’s flight permit, while the aircraft was in the air for fuel supply.
The Government demanded explanations from its Uruguayan counterpart for this decision that put the crew at risk, who had to fly with less fuel than the regulation.
“With all due respect, Venezuela has to understand that in Uruguay the government changed and sovereignty is exercised,” responded Uruguayan Defense Minister Javier García on June 19.
