The Bolivarian Government rejected that the United States (USA) reiterate its “failed policy” of applying unilateral coercive measures against Venezuela, stressing that it constitutes a crime against humanity.
In this sense, the People’s Power Minister for Foreign Relations, Yván Gil, pointed out that the permanence of this aggression places the US administration “outside International Law”, through a thread of messages published on his Twitter account, @yvangil.
“We might think that after the recurrent failures of the US in its fantasy of overthrowing President Nicolás Maduro, arrogance and immorality would be a thing of the past. The only thing intact today is the will of our people to overcome the claims of imperialist vileness”, the foreign minister emphasized in one of the publications.
1/2 Venezuela rejects the statements of the State Department reiterating the continuity of its failed policy of aggression through Unilateral Coercive Measures: a crime against humanity that places them outside International Law https://t.co/yYC6cjvfhE
— Yvan Gil (@yvangil) January 17, 2023
The Venezuelan diplomat shared a press release, in which a spokesman for the US State Department assures that his government will keep its sanctions policy against the South American country “intact”, in response to a recent request by President Maduro to to lift all these extraterritorial measures that harm the human rights of the people and the national economy.
The National Government has counted more than 920 criminal unilateral coercive measures imposed by the US administration in a period of seven years, for which reason it filed, in February 2020, a complaint before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity, according to the Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Relations (MPPRE).
After a 12-day visit to Venezuela in February 2021, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, Alena Douhan, determined that the coercive measures have had “devastating effects.” ” about the life of the citizens of the Caribbean nation.
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