Venezuela rejects arrest warrant against President Bashar al-Assad

Published at: 27/06/2024 08:25 PM

The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela issued a statement this Thursday, June 27, in which it categorically rejects the arrest warrant against the president of the Syrian Arab Republic, Bashar al-Asad, who went to a court of appeal in France.

This statement was published by the Foreign Minister of the Republic, Yván Gil, on his account on the social network X.

In the document, Venezuela rejects this statement in which “al-Asad is accused of a series of falsehoods”, which is why they categorize the situation as “an affront to international legality and to the Syrian people”.

Below is the full text of the statement:

The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela categorically and in the strongest terms rejects the arrest warrant against the President of the Syrian Arab Republic, Bashar al-Asad, issued by a French court of appeals, which accuses him of a series of falsehoods, becoming an affront to international legality and to the Syrian people.

The Venezuelan government stresses that this reckless stance of French colonialist justice ignores the prerogatives proper to an incumbent Head of State and is contrary to the benefit of due process immunity.

Venezuela expresses its solidarity with brother President Bashar al-Asad, while urging the international community to avoid any excuse that gives rise to extraterritorial interference against the Syrian people and government, since actions of this nature constitute an obvious violation of international law enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961, and judicial colonialism.

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, within the framework of Peace Diplomacy, strongly rejects imperial interventionism and any other threat that seeks to legitimate acts that violate the sovereignty of free nations and governments legitimately constituted under the will of the peoples.

Caracas, June 27, 2024