The Chancellor of the Republic, Yván Gil, led an international meeting with social movements to ratify the country’s commitment to diplomacy and sovereignty, especially after the serious events of January 3.
Gil described the attack suffered in Caracas at the beginning of the year as “the worst stain” in the recent history of the region, and stressed that it represented an unprecedented violation. However, the diplomat emphasized that Venezuela’s response will not be that of brute force, but that of “Bolivarian peace.”
He was emphatic in differentiating the concept of peace defended by the Bolivarian Revolution from the imperialist model: “Our doctrine is peace with social justice, with sovereignty and with integration of peoples,” Gil stated before representatives of more than 60 countries connected via videoconference, as part of the 12th anniversary of the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, made by Celac (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States).
He recognized the technological disparity compared to nuclear powers, but assured that Venezuela has “superior weapons”: arguments, history and international law. “We do not have missiles or aircraft carriers, but we are right,” stated the minister, while thanking the brother peoples for their support.
For her part, representative Tania Díaz announced the holding of a Great World Meeting for next March, with the objective of unifying a global action agenda against the aggressions suffered by Venezuela on January 3.
He highlighted that this event seeks to coordinate international strategies that denounce the violation of national sovereignty and international law in the region.
He urged the social movements of the world to form specific committees for the release of President Nicolás Maduro and the representative and first combatant Cilia Flores, whom he described as examples and guarantees of national stability.
International movements agree on an action plan in defense of the Celac Peace Zone
During the meeting, the social and political movements agreed on a plan of action and mobilization to end the harassment, blockade and siege against our America, Venezuela, Cuba and against the peoples of the region, to defend the declaration of a Zone of Peace carried out in 2014 by the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac).
“Assume the sovereignty of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean as a fundamental task, as a determining task to guarantee peace,” reported Representative Blanca Eekhout, who led the international meeting, as president of the Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity.
The deputy reported that the meeting was in person and virtual, held at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with representatives of social movements, solidarity, women, youth, people of African descent, workers, parliaments and also jurists from 60 countries and more than 500 connections internationally.
“Not only have we had participation from all of our America, but also from Europe, Africa and particularly the mobilization that has taken place since January 3 in the United States asking for the release of President Nicolás Maduro and our sister, first lady and deputy Cilia Flores,” he added.
The Venezuelan parliamentarian reaffirmed that it is an urgent need to defend this determination of the Latin American and Caribbean people to a region of peace, in addition to the decision of 1964, when the Tlatelolco Agreement was signed to ensure a region free of nuclear weapons. “Today, more than ever, in the face of the barbarity of the occupation of the Caribbean Sea, with lethal forces, with nuclear weapons,” he denounced.
“That is why this meeting, where concrete mobilization actions have been established, in addition to this assessment of what has been carried out, for example in Mexico, as well as in the United States, but in all of our America, in Brazil, Puerto Rico, to guarantee the return of President Nicolás Maduro, of our deputy Cilia Flores, and that the aggression against Venezuela and against all of our America ceases.”
Likewise, Eekhout had no hesitation in affirming that peace is only achieved through equality, justice and the sovereignty of the people.
“We, at this moment, are starting from this entire day of meeting a plan of action, mobilization and reaffirmation of our America, that will assumed by Celac, an important creation also of our eternal president, Hugo Chávez; it is the vocation for peace, the peace that is only possible with justice, sovereignty and with respect for international law.”
