The Executive Vice President of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguezsaid Friday a meeting with the deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (CPI), Mame Mandiaye Niang, in The Hague, Netherlands.
«We consign in the case on the criminal block against Venezuela (Venezuela II) the study published in the magazine The Lancet which demonstrates the impact on the health and life of the peoples of unilateral coercive measures, ”he reported through his Telegram channel.
Rodríguez explained that this investigation, which covered 152 countries, determined that more than 564,000 people, disproportionately under five years and older adults, die every year product of the “sanctions” adopted by the United States government and other west countries “to promote the policy of ‘regime change’. This figure is similar to the annual mortality rate due to armed conflicts ».
“We draw the attention of the attached prosecutor to the slowness with which this matter progresses, initiated more than five years ago as a result of a remission made by Venezuela,” he added.
In another message, the vice president indicated that the issue known as “Venezuela I” was also discussed, reaffirming that in the country no crimes provided for in the Rome Statute have been committed.
“In this context, we ratify our willingness to continue and deepen the mechanisms of positive complementarity and joint work plans in the field of cooperation and technical assistance, always on the basis of the primacy of the national jurisdiction,” he said.
Likewise, the responsible and professional action of Venezuela’s security agencies in the defense of the peace and tranquility of the nation, as well as the protection of the rights of the population.
Venezuela has denounced the impact of coercive measures
Subsequently, in statements to Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), the Executive Vice President indicated that the aforementioned study confirmed the complaint that Venezuela has been making about the impact of illegal coercive measures, formally doing so five years ago before the ICC.
“That file has not moved, is detained, but the impact that illicit sanctions have had, in this case Venezuela, where economic suffocation derived from the loss of 99 percent of our foreign exchange income has caused social injuries, as the Venezuelan people know it well: in health, education, food, in essential social programs,” he recalled.
Rodríguez said that they delivered more evidence of what Venezuela has been facing, with more than a thousand unilateral coercive measures. “Crimes planned in the Rome Statute have been committed, as murder, as persecution against the Venezuelan people, as extermination, aggravation of humanitarian situations,” he said.
He also declared that another issue discussed during the meeting was that hopefully this type of international organizations “do not fenez in the attempt to apply justice and that it is a decolonized, depoliticized justice,” placing as an example what happens with Israeli aggression and genocide in Gaza.
