The National Assembly (AN) unanimously approved the agreement of categorical rejection of expressions of “legal colonialism” against the Venezuelan nation by a prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the complicit inaction of this body in the face of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.
The draft agreement was presented by the deputy Ilenia Medina, who made a brief summary of what is happening within the ICC, some of its officials who have used reports of outright lies against Venezuela to accuse it of alleged crimes against humanity during the so-called guarimbas, and with whom they initiated an investigation called Venezuela I, in response to requests from governments that called themselves “Lima Group”.
But the ICC was forced to open another investigation, called Venezuela II, at the request of the national government, which asked to investigate the profound damage that unilateral tax measures had done to the Venezuelan people and of all the extremist right-wing politicians who joined the North American Government and of all those who have applied criminal and illegal measures and destabilizing street actions.
In addition, the Government of President Maduro approved the creation of an office of the ICC Prosecutor’s Office in Caracas to expand its investigations, as a demonstration of its willingness to cooperate honestly, from the principle of good faith, as a symbol of the distinction of the Venezuelan State. But that organization never sent operational personnel, while it continued the efforts on the first investigation, but stalled any progress in the second, thereby demonstrating its veiled partiality against the Bolivarian Republic.
Medina recalled that Venezuela was a pioneer state on the American continent in ratifying the Rome Statute and maintains a firm commitment to true complementarity and international justice, despite the instrumentalization of the International Criminal Court for geopolitical purposes.
The deputy warned that, in the face of new military threats from the United States against Venezuela, which the ICC does not deal with either, the body decides to close that office that it never occupied, to avoid witnessing what could happen in Venezuela, if armed aggression were to occur.
At this point, the representative considers pertinent, for political effectiveness in revolutionary quality, the proposal for a repealing law to withdraw Venezuela from the ICC, whose incorporation was approved in the year 2000, and whose first discussion would take place next in this Tuesday’s session.
Text of the Agreement:
The approved project contemplates four considerings and five agreements:
-That the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela flatly rejects the statements of the deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as it seeks to justify an exercise of unacceptable legal colonialism against our nation, neglecting the duties of impartiality and cooperation that must prevail in the work of that criminal instance.
-That the ICC prosecutor’s office demonstrates with these acts, an evident breach of the memorandums of understanding signed with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, by ignoring its responsibility to support and provide technical assistance to national institutions, maintaining an office in Caracas without operational personnel, which shows an agenda of political instrumentalization.
-That it is ethically unacceptable that the prosecution of the International Criminal Court shows excessive and selective zeal against the countries of the Global South, while ignoring the genocide and crimes against humanity that are committed openly, publicly and systematically against the Palestinian people by the Israeli regime, acting with timid and fearful steps that guarantee impunity.
-Which, likewise, has maintained an overwhelming silence for more than five years, regarding the Venezuela II case, which documents the crimes of humanity perpetrated by those behind the economic blockade and the unilateral tax measures against the Venezuelan people.
Agree:
First, express the most energetic and categorical repudiation of the statements of the deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and condemn the political instrumentalization of the ICC system to exercise legal colonialism against the sovereignty and self-determination of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Second: Denounce the irresponsible failure to comply with the commitments of cooperation and positive complementarity, assumed by the prosecution in the International Criminal Court, by not appointing personnel to its office in Caracas or making contributions to the initiatives for Venezuelan justice, demonstrating the instrumentalization of the International Criminal Justice System, with the aim of undermining the institutions and the Venezuelan democratic system.
Third: Point out the double standards and flagrant selectivity of the ICC prosecutor’s office, which has disproportionately focused its attention on Venezuela, based on assumptions that do not fit into the Rome Statute, while remaining silent and acting timidly in the face of the genocide committed by the Israeli regime against the Palestinian people and the impunity of the perpetrators.
Fourth: Support all actions undertaken by the Executive Branch to ensure the truth prevails and defend the rights of the nation, against any formula of legal colonialism that contravenes the reason for being of the International Criminal Court and the principles of international law.
Fifth: Publish this agreement in the Official Gazette of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and give it maximum dissemination, in accordance with the provisions of article 136 of the internal and debate regulations of the National Assembly.
Given, signed and sealed in the Federal Legislative Palace, headquarters of the national assembly in Caracas, on the second day of December 2025
Year 215 of Independence, 166 of the Federation and 26 of the Bolivarian Revolution.
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