Venezuela denounced a campaign of political and media destabilization in The Hague

Published at: 06/12/2024 02:07 PM

In the framework of the General Debate of the 23rd session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, the head of the delegation of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Permanent Representative to the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ambassador Hector Constant Rosales, denounced a campaign of political and media destabilization in The Hague.

Rosales said that Venezuela is constituted as a democratic and social State of Justice within the Constitutional framework, the country advocates the superior values of freedom, life, justice, equality, solidarity, democracy, social responsibility and, in general, the preeminence of human rights, and that the five national Powers of the Venezuelan State act jointly for the protection and promotion of rights of citizens.

He also denounced that since 2014, his country has been the victim of a systematic campaign of political and media destabilization, with the purpose of generating a violent change of government, at the expense of the suffering of its population.

In this context, he stated that in the most recent violent actions, which occurred after the holding of the presidential elections of July 28, an attempt has been made to recreate, once again, the false matrix of opinion of an alleged violation of rights as a State policy in Venezuela, dismissing the victims of such violence themselves and the investigations carried out by the Venezuelan Public Prosecutor's Office.

Ambassador Constant Rosales recalled that “Venezuela has been the subject of the illegal application of more than 900 Unilateral Coercive Measures by the government of the United States of America and other States, which have had a terrible impact on the national economy and on the human rights of Venezuelans, as recognized by independent United Nations bodies.

“Until 2022, the damage caused by these criminal measures to the country's economy was estimated at 642 billion dollars, which is higher than the international reserves of all the remaining eleven countries in South America,” he said.

He also stressed that Venezuela has shown its firm commitment within the framework of complementarity and in line with the inalienable right to its sovereignty before the ICC.

At present, the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC is made up of 124 member States and meets regularly once a year and, when circumstances so require, holds special sessions.

Mazo News Team