Venezuela denounces and condemns colonialist threat that seeks to affect its airspace

Published at: 29/11/2025 03:13 PM

In an official statement, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela denounced and condemned the colonialist threat that “seeks to affect the sovereignty of airspace, an action that constitutes a new extravagant, illegal and unjustified aggression against the Venezuelan people.”

The country's foreign minister, Yván Gil, published the statement that responds to the public message disseminated on social networks by Donald Trump, in which he intends to apply that country's jurisdiction over Venezuela extraterritorially; an unusual attempt to give orders and threaten the sovereignty of national airspace, integrity.

Below is the full text of the statement:

Venezuela denounces and condemns the colonialist threat that seeks to affect the sovereignty of its airspace, constituting this new extravagant, legal and unjustified aggression against the people of Venezuela.

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela repudiates with absolute force the public message released today on social networks by the President of the United States, in which he intends to extraterritorially apply the illegitimate jurisdiction of the United States in Venezuela by unusually trying to give orders and threaten the sovereignty of national airspace, territorial integrity, aeronautical security and the pleural sovereignty of the Venezuelan State.

This type of declaration constitutes a hostile, unilateral and arbitrary act, incompatible with the most elementary principles of international law and part of a permanent policy of aggression against our country, with colonial claims on our region of Latin America and the Caribbean, denying international law.

Venezuela denounces to the world that such statements represent an explicit threat of use of force, clearly and unequivocally prohibited by Article 2, number 4, of the Charter of the United Nations.

This type of declaration constitutes a hostile, unilateral act and this attempt at intimidation also violates Article 1 of the said Charter, which enshrines as a fundamental purpose the maintenance of international peace
and security.

Venezuela demands unrestricted respect for its airspace, protected under the rules of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and reaffirmed in the Chicago Convention of 1944, whose Article 1 categorically recognizes that “a State has exclusive and absolute sovereignty over the air zone that encompasses its territory”.

The Bolivarian Government warns that Venezuela will not accept orders, threats or interference from any foreign power. No authority outside Venezuelan institutions has the power to interfere, block or condition the use of national airspace.

Through this action, the United States government has unilaterally suspended the Venezuelan migrant flights that had been taking place regularly and weekly as part of the repatriation of Venezuelans through the Plan Back to the Fatherland. At this point, 75 flights have been made for the repatriation of 13,956 Venezuelan and Venezuelan migrants who have been received with love and absolute solidarity.

We make a direct call to the international community, to the sovereign governments of the world, to the UN and to the corresponding multilateral organizations, to firmly reject this immoral act of aggression, which amounts to a threat to the sovereignty and security of our Homeland, the Caribbean and North of South America.

Venezuela will know how to respond with dignity, with legality and with all the strength provided by international law and the anti-imperialist spirit of our people.

Venezuela will continue to fully exercise its sovereignty protected by international law throughout its airspace. This threat against Venezuela is against continental peace and our peoples, heirs of El Libertador Simón Bolívar, will win.

Caracas, November 29, 2025

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Mazo News Team