Caracas calls U.S. actions against Venezuelan oil tankers “piracy” and warn of aggression during emergency meeting.
On Tuesday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said his country is receiving overwhelming support from the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), which held an emergency meeting requested by Caracas amid mounting pressure from the United States.
“The Security Council is giving us overwhelming support for Venezuela and for the right to free navigation and free trade,” the Bolivarian leader said while touring a Christmas fair in Caracas.
Maduro again described the seizure of vessels by the United States as “piracy” and asserted that “no one will be able to defeat” his country.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said that his country “has obtained a great victory” at the United Nations, where “all the lies of the United States government were dismantled.”
“It was also demonstrated that no country in the world, not even the U.S. historic allies, supports the use or the threat of the use of force to subjugate a free and sovereign nation under the false pretext of combating drug trafficking,” he added.
During a presidential event, the president of #Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, stated that the role of a president is to address the problems of their country and not to interfere in the affairs of other #nations. pic.twitter.com/kBelmkFPE1
“It became clear that the threat or use of force against Venezuela, in violation of the Latin America and the Caribbean’s Zone of Peace, responds to a colonial logic driven from Washington under the Monroe Doctrine. Likewise, piracy on the high seas used to appropriate Venezuela’s oil resources — which belong inalienably to its people — was condemned,” Gil pointed out.
Easrlier, Samuel Moncada, Venezuela’s permanent representative to the United Nations, said that the U.S. is seeking to impose a colony by blocking sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving the South American nation.
The blockade, announced last week by U.S. President Donald Trump, amounts to “a crime of aggression through which the president seeks to turn back the clock of history 200 years to impose a colony in Venezuela,” the Bolivarian diplomat said.
He also described U.S. actions as “a war of plunder and pillage” of oil that constitutes an attack on the entire system of international relations and on the Global South, which is “considered inferior by the current U.S. government.”
During the UNSC session, Colombia condemned “the use of force” and the “unilateral coercive measures” applied by the U.S., which “erode the rule of law and must not be a substitute for dialogue.”
Russia’s representative, Vasily Nebenzya called the U.S. blockade of oil tankers “illegal” and said that “this ongoing intervention could become a model for future acts of force against Latin American countries.”
Venezuela denounced before the United Nations Security Council a plan of continental aggression by the #UnitedStates, based on the Monroe Doctrine, which seeks to divide the region in order to conquer it. pic.twitter.com/rzSkveovDe
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Caracas calls U.S. actions against Venezuelan oil tankers “piracy” and warn of aggression during emergency meeting.
On Tuesday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said his country is receiving overwhelming support from the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), which held an emergency meeting requested by Caracas amid mounting pressure from the United States.
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“The Security Council is giving us overwhelming support for Venezuela and for the right to free navigation and free trade,” the Bolivarian leader said while touring a Christmas fair in Caracas.
Maduro again described the seizure of vessels by the United States as “piracy” and asserted that “no one will be able to defeat” his country.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said that his country “has obtained a great victory” at the United Nations, where “all the lies of the United States government were dismantled.”
“It was also demonstrated that no country in the world, not even the U.S. historic allies, supports the use or the threat of the use of force to subjugate a free and sovereign nation under the false pretext of combating drug trafficking,” he added.
“It became clear that the threat or use of force against Venezuela, in violation of the Latin America and the Caribbean’s Zone of Peace, responds to a colonial logic driven from Washington under the Monroe Doctrine. Likewise, piracy on the high seas used to appropriate Venezuela’s oil resources — which belong inalienably to its people — was condemned,” Gil pointed out.
Easrlier, Samuel Moncada, Venezuela’s permanent representative to the United Nations, said that the U.S. is seeking to impose a colony by blocking sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving the South American nation.
The blockade, announced last week by U.S. President Donald Trump, amounts to “a crime of aggression through which the president seeks to turn back the clock of history 200 years to impose a colony in Venezuela,” the Bolivarian diplomat said.
He also described U.S. actions as “a war of plunder and pillage” of oil that constitutes an attack on the entire system of international relations and on the Global South, which is “considered inferior by the current U.S. government.”
During the UNSC session, Colombia condemned “the use of force” and the “unilateral coercive measures” applied by the U.S., which “erode the rule of law and must not be a substitute for dialogue.”
Russia’s representative, Vasily Nebenzya called the U.S. blockade of oil tankers “illegal” and said that “this ongoing intervention could become a model for future acts of force against Latin American countries.”
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