Venezuelan
Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza announced the formation of a new group
at the United Nations to defend the “principles of international
law” and the rights of peoples to “live in peace, without
interference, without interventions, without the threat of the use of
force.”
Addressing
reporters in New York today (14 Feb), Arreaza said the group would
coordinate action to defend the UN Charter. This includes:
*respect
for the principles of equal rights of peoples
*respect
for the sovereign equality of Member States
*settling
disputes through peaceful means as to never threaten international
peace and security
*refraining
from the threat to use force against any state
*respect
for the territorial integrity and political independence of states
*non-intervention
in the domestic affairs of states
“We
all have the right to live without the threat of use of force, and
without the application of illegal coercive unilateral measures. In
the next few days, we will begin a series of actions, as a group, to
raise awareness around the dangers that our peoples currently face,
particularly the people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. We
call upon all the Member States of the United Nations to join us in
defending international law as the only guarantor of humanity’s
peaceful coexistence.”
The
Foreign Minister said the group was not only aimed at defending
Venezuela. He said it would work in a collective manner in all UN
bodies, including the Security Council and the General Assembly, to
defend the rights of its peoples.
Arreaza
reiterated his call on the media “not to get involved with this
show, this spectacle, that the US is organizing” on
humanitarian aid to his country.
He said
the US has blocked the Venezuelan economy costing the country over 30
billion USD and now wants to provide 20 million in “so-called
humanitarian aid.” He asked reporters, “So, what is this?
I’m choking you. I’m killing you. And then I’m giving you a
cookie?”
The
Venezuelan Foreign Minister said the US was looking for loyalty from
the Venezuelan armed forces, but their loyalty “has already been
[proven].”
He added
that the “momentum of the coup that the government of the United
States was promoting is over” and the US now had to rethink its
strategy.
Asked
about reported movements of US special forces in several Caribbean
islands, Arreaza said these events were “dangerous” adding
that the US was “playing a new game of psychological warfare,
and also trying to besiege and corner” his country.
He
stressed that his government would “protect every millimetre of
the Venezuelan territory” and would respond to “any
situation in a proportional manner to any type of attack against”
his country.
In
response to a question on the 23 February deadline for humanitarian
aid to enter the country given by opposition leader Juan Guiadó, the
Foreign Minister said there was only one government in Venezuela, and
as such, “no one can give deadlines, especially this man who was
self-proclaimed; or who self-proclaimed himself as president of
Venezuela in the middle of a street in a demonstration without any
constitutional framework to support it.”
He said
Guiadó “doesn’t have effective control of a police patrol in
Venezuela; so, whatever he says is absolutely absurd.”
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