The Vice Minister for Europe, Coromoto Godoy Calderón, reported through her social network on X, that she delivered a protest note to the chargé d’affaires of the Netherlands in Caracas, for “hide the reception of Edmundo González Urrutia».
“I delivered to the Chargé d’Affaires of the Kingdom of the Netherlands the strongest protest of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela against the interventionist and illegal conduct of the diplomatic representation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which in an arrogant and unfriendly attitude, covered up the organization and direction of activities against the stability and peace of the country by citizen Edmundo González, with the aggravating factor that the secrecy was maintained even when the aforementioned citizen was being required judicially, allowing him in this way to evade his responsibilities before the Venezuelan justice system,” reads the post published on the social network X.
Earlier, Foreign Minister Yván Gil Pinto announced Venezuela’s decision to submit a protest note to the Kingdom of the Netherlands for hiding the former opposition candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, in its embassy in Caracas.
In an audiovisual material published on his Telegram channel, the Foreign Minister specified that this decision is due to the fact that the Bolivarian Government “should have been informed, according to international protocols, that Mr. González Urrutia had been at the Embassy since the day after the presidential elections on July 28.”
Gil questioned that, while the “terrorist gangs were causing disasters and violence throughout the country, setting fire to police stations, attacking schools and hospitals, Mr. González Urrutia, at that very moment, was taking refuge in the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.”
He explained that the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Caspar Veldkamp, in addition to confirming, through a communication, that Edmundo González requested refuge in the Dutch diplomatic residence in Caracas from the day after the elections of July 28, also indicated prior planning for his departure from Venezuela.
