The Colombian president, on behalf of his pro tempore presidency of CELAC, asked who gave Trump authority to violate Venezuelan sovereignty
Colombian President Gustavo Petro asked his American counterpart, Donald Trump, under what rule of international law he warned pilots and airlines to consider Venezuelan airspace closed and said that what happened goes against the national sovereignty of the South American country.
“I want to know, under what rule of international law can a president of a country close airspace to another nation?” Petro expressed in a message published in
The US president warned on Saturday that airlines and pilots must take into account that Venezuelan airspace “will remain completely closed.”
«To all airlines, pilots, drug traffickers and human traffickers: we ask you to consider that the airspace over Venezuela and its surroundings will remain completely closed. Thank you for your time! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP,” reads the president’s message published on his social network Truth, which does not clarify any circumstances related to the closure.
In that sense, Petro responded that he tells the world “that national airspace cannot be closed by a foreign president,” because if that were the case “the concept of national sovereignty and the concept of ‘international law’ are over.”
