The Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, denounced a\u00a0“flagrant violation”\u00a0of the UN Charter and international law by the United States.<\/p>\n
He also\u00a0called for respect for immunity, as well as the release and return to Venezuela of deposed president Nicolas Maduro and his wife.<\/p>\n
“We first request that the Government of the United States of America be required to fully respect the immunities of President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, as well as their immediate release and safe return to Venezuela,”\u00a0Moncada said during an emergency session of the UN’s highest body.<\/p>\n
He also demanded that member states issue an “unequivocal”\u00a0condemnation of the use of force against Venezuela, reaffirm the principle of non-acquisition of territory or resources through force, and adopt measures for de-escalation, protection of the civilian population, and the restoration of international law.<\/p>\n
The diplomat accused the Washington\u00a0of an “illegitimate armed attack devoid of any legal justification,”\u00a0which involved “bombardments of its territory, the loss of civilian and military lives, the destruction of essential infrastructure, and the kidnapping”\u00a0of Maduro on January 3, a date he described as being “of profound historical gravity”\u00a0for the world.<\/p>\n
“Allowing such acts to go unanswered effectively amounts to normalizing the replacement of law by force and eroding the very foundations of the collective security system,”\u00a0the ambassador added.<\/p>\n
Moncada described Venezuela\u2019s “natural wealth, oil, energy, strategic resources, and geopolitical position”\u00a0as a “central element of the aggression,”\u00a0and likened the action to “the worst practices of colonialism and neocolonialism.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, denounced a\u00a0“flagrant violation”\u00a0of the UN Charter and international law…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-389629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}