The Government of Ecuador will request that the Venezuelan issue be included in the agenda for Thursday, September 5, when a new meeting of the UN Security Council, one of the highest decision-making bodies of the organization, is scheduled.
The Government of Ecuador announced on Tuesday 3 that it has instructed its permanent mission to the United Nations to include the crisis in Venezuela in the agenda of the next meeting of the Security Council.
The government of Daniel Noboa said that this decision is due to the “increase in tensions in Venezuela, which could become a direct threat to regional stability and international security.”
According to the Ecuadorian government’s statement, diffused According to the Foreign Ministry, the request will be made on Thursday, September 5, when a new meeting of the UN Security Council, one of the highest decision-making bodies of the organization, is scheduled.
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— Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry 🇪🇨 (@CancilleriaEc) September 3, 2024
Ecuador joined a group of eight countries which condemned on Tuesday the arrest warrant issued by an anti-terrorist court against opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, which they described as an “attempt to silence” the presidential candidate, “ignoring the will of the Venezuelan people, and constituting political persecution.”
The Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office accuses him of several crimes, including conspiracy and forging public documents, by linking him to the maintenance of the website resultadosconvzla.com, where 86% of the voting records for the July 28 presidential elections have been published.
According to the prosecutor, a matter supported by the Supreme Court of Justice, the records that give the victory with 67.3% of the votes to Edmundo González are “forged.” The National Electoral Council declared Nicolás Maduro the winner of the elections, a decision that led to hundreds of protests since July 29.
These demonstrations were repressed by the security forces. According to the authorities, at least 25 people died and more than 2,200 were arrested, including hundreds of teenagers, for their alleged involvement in “terrorist” acts. International organizations such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights have pointed out that, in reality, these are “practices of state terrorism.”
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