Chancellor Gil assured that the global protection system risks losing its original purpose

Published at: 23/02/2026 11:02 AM

This Monday, at the High-Level Segment of the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Foreign Minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Yván Gil, made his own space to denounce the politicization of international organizations and ratify his nation's commitment to sovereign cooperation.

Gil pointed out that the global protection system risks losing its original purpose if it is kept under the logic of ideological confrontation.

“That is the central message that we bring to this Council today: human rights cannot be an instrument of political war. They cannot be selective. They can't depend on ideological alignments,” he said.

In this regard, he expressed Venezuela's deep concern at what he described as “selective geopolitics”, questioning the fact that, while disproportionate scrutiny is exercised on certain countries, humanitarian crises of urgent gravity are ignored.

The diplomat emphasized the institutional siege against Venezuela with the lack of firm action in the face of the “devastation of the Palestinian people”, and urged the Council to regain its credibility as a universal space committed to all peoples equally.

He also assured that the national government does not seek to evade its commitments, but rather to strengthen its institutions through continuous improvement and constructive dialogue. “We have resumed cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), reopening spaces for technical dialogue based on respect for our sovereignty,” he said.

Mazo News Team