UN rapporteur: US sanctions on Venezuela are ‘blunt’ way to engineer regime change, causing blanket starvation
US
sanctions against Venezuela are like “going into microsurgery with
a kitchen knife” and are holding an entire population hostage, the
UN special rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive
measures told The Grayzone.
by
Michael Selby-Green
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US-led
sanctions against Venezuela’s state-owned oil company Petróleos de
Venezuela (PDVSA) are “playing with fire,” causing blanket
starvation, and harming people with no stake in the leadership
struggle, warned the United Nation’s special rapporteur on
unilateral coercive measures.
“I
have reviewed sanctions across the world. Very few of them have
really been a positive, helpful factor. It’s like going into
microsurgery using a kitchen knife. It’s a very blunt tool to
achieve the proclaimed objective,” said ambassador Idriss
Jazairy in an interview with The Grayzone.
“They
usually contribute, and this is the case now in Venezuela, in
stimulating more suffering for innocent people that have no axe to
grind in the political dissent that exists in the country,” he
added.
Jazairy,
who monitors sanctions for the UN, joins the first UN official to
visit Venezuela for 21 years, Alfred de Zayas, in firmly condemning
the measures which both men say are killing Venezuelan citizens.
The
special expert called it “bizarre” that, at a time when
Venezuela lacks food and medicine, the US and its allies have
intervened to restrict access to both critical needs by imposing
crushing new sanctions.
Jazairy
made his comments just before the UN Human Rights Council approved a
resolution by Venezuela on March 21, by a vote of 27 to 15,
condemning the use of unilateral coercive measures like sanctions.
The
resolution declared that the Human Rights Council was alarmed at “the
disproportionate and indiscriminate human costs of unilateral
sanctions and their negative effects on the civilian population, in
particular women and children, of targeted States.” It urged
states to abide by international law and remove illegal sanctions.
Source,
links:
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/04/07/un-rapporteur-says-us-sanctions-against-venezuela-are-the-bluntest-way-to-engineer-regime-change-and-are-causing-blanket-starvation/
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