Venezuela on the renewal of the fact-finding mission: We don't recognize imposed resolutions!

Published at: 11/10/2024 03:54 PM

The ambassador representing Venezuela to the United Nations (UN) and other international organizations based in Geneva, Alexander Yánez, expressed this Friday his rejection of the two-year extension of the resolution that established the so-called Independent International Mission on Venezuela.

During his speech to the UN Human Rights Council, Yánez stated that the decision corresponds to an instrument of coercion designed by Western imperialism and its allies.

In addition, in this scenario, he questioned the systematic violation of human rights in various countries due to the agency's lack of action and criticized the West's lack of morality in the face of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, which has been violating the rights of the Palestinian people for seventy years.

Yánez pointed out that “Western countries insist on turning this Council into an instrument of coercion and blackmail, into a court of inquisition against the peoples and governments of the Global South,” he said.

He also asserted that the resolution on the international mission in Venezuela was endorsed by the nations “responsible for the invasions and coups d'etat in: Chile, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Granada, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria, Palestine and Lebanon.”

He specified that the extension of this document costs the UN 8 million 995 thousand 500 US dollars, equivalent to 12 thousand 322 per day, condemning, in turn, the “waste of money” at the UN, by governments without tangible achievements or cooperation in the field of human rights.

“We don't recognize imposed resolutions. Voting against this political document is a complaint of historical injustice against the peoples of the Global South,” he concluded.

Mazo News Team