“The United States violates international laws and intends to apply extraterritoriality in the world,” said the Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Samuel Moncada, in the case of the Venezuelan diplomat, Alex Saab, who was kidnapped on June 12, 2020.
These statements were issued by the Venezuelan Ambassador during his right to speak in the National Assembly, to expose the invasion and assassination plans against the Venezuelan people and officials, planned by the Donald Trump administration together with Venezuelan right-wing politicians with the support of the Colombian government.
For Moncada, “the principle of the illegality of Alex Saab’s arrest is based on the fact that he was a diplomatic envoy of the Venezuelan government protected by the Vienna Convention, where every special diplomatic envoy is protected and has immunity.”
The kidnapping of Saab was carried out because “the government of Cape Verde itself did not want to get involved, they received pressure from the United States. “It is the militarization of diplomacy,” Moncada said.
Among Mark Esper’s confessions, it is evident that the Government of Donald Trump had full knowledge that alex saab fulfilled diplomatic functions for Venezuela.
The US government was seeking his extradition, which is why he was kidnapped in June 2020.
To carry out this kidnapping, “they self-informed that due to a statement by Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, Venezuela was preparing an attack on Cape Verde, in which troops were going to be sent to Cape Verde, to make a combination of a multinational attack of Iran, Russia and Venezuela, with mercenaries to rescue Alex Saab».
Moncada explained that “based on this madness, informational rubbish, they said then we have to send 3,500 soldiers and surround the island of Cape Verde so that we can take Alex Saab and they don’t take him.”
Faced with this situation, the ambassador continued, “everyone realized that it was impossible, the military knew that this did not make any sense, that could be resolved with a police measure.” He explained that the US strategy was to surround Cape Verde and pressure him to “scare his government” into handing over the diplomat.
The representative of Venezuela before the UN indicated that “the government of Cape Verde did not want to do it, there were judicial decisions in Cape Verde and Africa in an African regional international court that did not agree with him, however, the government of Cape Verde handed him over the last day”.
At that time, “there were elections in Cape Verde, a new government arrived that had a different vision of the problem, but on the last day of the outgoing government it was illegally handed over to the United States. There you see again the concrete example of the enormous pressure from the United States on small countries like Cape Verde to break international law.
Moncada added that not only is there pressure from the United States to violate laws, but also “the militarization of diplomacy occurs, the use of military force in small countries to force them to comply with laws that do not belong to their countries but to the United States.” ».
They knew that Alex Saab was a Diplomat
The deputy to the National Assembly, Pedro Infante, during his speech commented that in the book by Mark Esper, former Secretary of Defense of the United States called “A Sacred Oath”, the political agenda of persecution of the Donald Trump Regime against Venezuela is evidenced and his Diplomat Alex Saab.
“Under Maduro’s direction, Saab would have been on Special Mission to negotiate an agreement with Iran so that Venezuela receives more fuel, food and medical supplies. Saab was Maduro’s right-hand man when it came to crafting the economic deals and other transactions that kept the regime afloat, and the US government was seeking his extradition.”the deputy quoted a paragraph from Esper’s book where he leaves no doubt that the United States was aware that Alex Saab was fulfilling a diplomatic function
“Only in the civilized diplomatic world is it well known that only diplomatic officials are the ones who negotiate agreements between states,” added Moncada.
Given these confessions, Moncada says that it follows that the case of the Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab reveals the flagrant violation of International Law by the United States, “something that is very clearly understood by those who know the matter in the North American nation, which is why Mark Esper admits that the arrest of the Venezuelan diplomat “scared to officials from the Department of State, Department of Justice, and the NSC who were working on this case.” This after the Foreign Minister of Venezuela at that time denounced that the action of the United States violated the laws that protect diplomatic officials.
Saab case
On June 12, 2020, Alex Saab, Venezuela’s special envoy to the Islamic Republic of Iran, was illegally detained in Cape Verde and handed over to the United States Government, where he is charged with money laundering conspiracy.
In February 2021, the defense of the special envoy of Venezuela began the challenge of the indictment from Miami, Florida, and affirmed his immunity and inviolability. That presentation was rejected in March 2021 by the judge handling the case in Miami, Scola.
Alex Saab’s lawyers appealed that decision in the 11th Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals, arguing that due to the diplomat’s immunity, no authority outside the jurisdiction of the country that appointed him can judge him.
