Foreign Minister Yván Gil highlights actions by the Bolivarian Government to guarantee respect for human rights

Published at: 15/02/2024 02:07 PM

The Minister of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, highlighted this Thursday the achievements of the Bolivarian Revolution to guarantee respect for human rights (Human Rights) in Venezuela for the entire population.

At a press conference from the Casa Amarilla Antonio José de Sucre, in Caracas, the Venezuelan Foreign Minister rejected the recent statements made by the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, regarding the arrest of Rocío San Miguel, accused of his involvement in the assassination plan “White Bracelet” the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, and other senior authorities of the Bolivarian Government.

He stressed that during the governments of the Fourth Republic, “ the entire population was the victim of a constant violation and no country of those that today shout and come out in defense of coup, terrorist bodies, supported the people of Venezuela, it was conscious mobilization that achieved the result we have today, a Constitution that is profoundly inspired by the values of defending human rights, laws that protect the civil, political and human rights of all the inhabitants and citizens of Venezuela,” he emphasized.

Gil stated that Venezuela has made progress “in consolidating laws and comprehensive protection of the people of their rights, of the right to live in peace, of the right to live in peace, the right to live with prosperity”, so that the factors of the right wing and imperialism began “to exploit human rights precisely against these policies of protection of the people and since 1999 the issue of human rights has been useful for developing campaigns in against the Bolivarian Government,” he denounced.

In this regard, he stressed that Venezuela is one of the Latin American countries that “strictly respects everything that has to do with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, which is why “collaboration with the Office of the High Commissioner began in 2019, which installed in Caracas a representation that today has 13 officials”, who “have been given the greatest of collaborations, access to requests from Public Power, State security forces, justice, the Public Prosecutor's Office, without restrictions of any kind because in Venezuela we have nothing to hide (...) we are proud of how we treat the issue of human rights and how we protect them.”

Mazo News Team