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2019-01-26
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2019-02-28
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  1. “In fact, there was an additional aid delivery today to the border region - Cucuta, Colombia - of emergency medical kits for 40,000 people, enough high-nutrition food for 10,000 infants for two months and hygiene kits for 35,000 people. I would like to take this opportunity to reiterate our concern about the safety and security of interim President Juan Guaido when he returns to Venezuela, and we hope that all members of the Council will join us in doing so. Now is the time to strengthen our commitment to the Venezuelan people. We call on members of the Security Council to join in that commitment, and I would like to express satisfaction that a clear majority of the Council did so today.”

    2019-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8476 (2019) · source

  2. “Events from this past weekend show that Maduro will stop at nothing to maintain power, including the use of gang violence against unarmed Venezuelan citizens. Regardless of the results of today's voting, this draft resolution shows that democracies around the world - and especially in Latin America - are mobilizing behind interim President Guaido. The United States will remain steadfast in our support for the legitimate Guaido Government and the National Assembly. We look forward to genuinely free and fair elections and to a Government that reflects the will and aspirations of the Venezuelan people. The United States will pursue all avenues to increase humanitarian assistance to Venezuelans, both inside and outside their country.”

    2019-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8476 (2019) · source

  3. “The situation in Venezuela demands our action now. The corrupt former Maduro regime has caused an economic collapse that threatens peace and security throughout the region. Millions of Venezuelans have fled their country in search of food, medicine and opportunity. The time for a peaceful transition to democracy is now. Each member of the international community that joins in recognizing the Guaido Government is supporting the people of Venezuela as they strive to reclaim their democracy. Regrettably, by voting against this draft resolution (S/2019/186), some members of the Security Council continue to shield Maduro and his cronies and prolong the suffering of the Venezuelan people. This man-made crisis has extended well beyond Venezuela's borders and threatens to destabilize the region.”

    2019-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8476 (2019) · source

  4. “The only way the debts that are owed by Venezuela will ever be repaid is if the economy can once again grow and if this terrible period of decline, which has impoverished what was once the richest country in Latin America, can be brought to an end. Finally, I would just say that I reject completely - from start to finish and from top to bottom - accusations of military intervention from a country that is occupying the territory of Georgia and Ukraine, in South Ossetia and Abkhazia and in Crimea, respectively. We do not accept such accusations in this situation; I reject them completely and I am amazed to hear them in the Council.”

    2019-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8472 (2019) · source

  5. “The Russian representative said that his country delivered aid, but I wonder how much of that aid will get to the people of Venezuela, because it was not delivered to the people. It was delivered to the regime, which will take it, and we will never know how much of it was sold through corrupt practices and how much of it was simply given to supporters of the regime. Then we heard a good deal about the freezing of accounts and about gold. Here, I think we get to the heart of the matter, which is that a lot of money is owed to Russia and it is no doubt worrying whether that money is going to be repaid. Well, my answer is - not if this economy is driven further into the ground.”

    2019-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8472 (2019) · source

  6. “I would like to respond briefly to the remarks of the representative of the Russian Federation. I think we are all aware of efforts that are being made - far away from here, in Hanoi - over the next couple of days to solve some problems that arose during the Cold War. But that is not the rhetoric that we heard in the Council today. We heard a lot of Cold War rhetoric - the kind of rhetoric that we used to hear when that sign said not "Russian Federation" but "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics". It is a bit surprising. First of all, what the United States did in providing aid or attempting to provide aid was done at the request of the legitimate Government - the legitimate interim President of Venezuela, Juan Guaido, who requested such aid from the international community.”

    2019-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8472 (2019) · source

  7. “We ask that others join us in sanctioning those who were involved in the violence over the past weekend and who are fattened by the spoils of the Maduro regime's corruption. We ask that Member States contribute to addressing the humanitarian situation in Venezuela, as dozens of nations generously have already done. We ask that they recognize the nature of the Maduro regime and question the purpose and likely outcome of so-called dialogue with someone who would rather block and burn donated medicine and bread than see it in the hands of Venezuelan children. Ask Jorge Ramos of Univision about the value of dialogue with Nicolas Maduro. The people of Venezuela need our solidarity and our help if they are to prevail against a vicious and violent regime, emerge into democracy and begin to rebuild their country.”

    2019-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8472 (2019) · source

  8. “We believe that both Guaido supporters and Chavistas can rebuild their country together and can construct a newly prosperous and democratic Venezuela. We are also deeply concerned about the safety of interim President Guaido upon his return to Venezuela. It is our duty as Council members to ensure that interim President Guaido is able to return home freely and safely. Now is the time to strengthen our commitment to the brave Venezuelan people. We call on the members of the Security Council to join us in meeting the growing needs in Venezuela and the region. We call on Member States to consider what resources and tools they have to contribute to Venezuelan democracy and to pressure the illegitimate Maduro regime to peacefully step down.”

    2019-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8472 (2019) · source

  9. “But the truth remains, and the sad plight of millions of Venezuelans remains unchanged. We are grateful for the leadership of our partners in supporting humanitarian assistance for the people of Venezuela and supporting their demand for democracy. The European Union, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama and Peru all swiftly condemned the use of violence and called for the delivery of much-needed humanitarian assistance. Their words and their actions can make a real difference in this crisis. The cure for this misery and tyranny is a free, fair and transparent election that embraces all sectors of society and all political parties. That, ofcourse, includes Chavistas, whose party has been usurped, much like the country itself, by Maduro.”

    2019-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8472 (2019) · source

  10. “Maduro wants to maintain power in the current crisis, and he has continued to politicize aid, via the Local Committees for Supply and Production programme, providing benefits to his supporters while rejecting the needs-based focus assistance must, as Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo said, have. Any additional time Maduro spends in power is additional time he will use to repress the Venezuelan people. That has been proven time and again, and this weekend was yet another example. And when he was brought face to face with the truth - that contrary to his false claims that aid was not needed, Venezuelan children were filmed by Univision combing through garbage to search for food - what did Mr. Maduro do? He detained the journalists, seized their equipment and ordered them deported.”

    2019-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8472 (2019) · source

  11. “Maduro, his cronies and some in this body claim that delivering humanitarian assistance is a political show and a cover for military intervention, but it is very clear that only the Maduro regime is using violence, only the regime has called in both its security forces and armed gangs, only the regime has betrayed Venezuelan independence and sovereignty by submitting to the influence of Cuban officers who permeate the security and intelligence agencies, and only the regime has a history of using humanitarian aid as both a political tool for social control and a resource for rampant corruption.”

    2019-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8472 (2019) · source

  12. “Protesters, aid workers and journalists marched to the border to welcome much-needed aid and were instead greeted by tear gas and rubber bullets. The United States and the international community must support the Venezuelan people as they strive to reclaim their democracy. We should respect their Constitution and their sovereignty, which is why we must support Juan Guaido's interim presidency. And we must address the de-stabilizing results of Maduro's corrupt, fraudulent and incompetent reign, which just this weekend brought instability and violence to the borders of two other Member States, Brazil and Colombia.”

    2019-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8472 (2019) · source

  13. “I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo for her very sobering and comprehensive briefing. We are here today because of the de facto Maduro regime's refusal to allow humanitarian aid to enter Venezuela on 23 February, which led to deaths, injuries and violence on two international borders. Those actions showed once again the true intentions and nature of the Maduro regime. Armed gangs, thugs and criminals released from prisons were mobilized to control the border. Their actions led to the burning of humanitarian assistance rather than its protection. And while Venezuelans were shot, beaten and killed as they tried to bring food and medicine into their country, Maduro was literally dancing in Caracas. Four people died, more than 80 Venezuelans were injured - it may be many more than that - after vigilantes from the regime opened fire.”

    2019-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8472 (2019) · source

  14. “The regime and its spokesman are hiding behind the laws and Constitution of Venezuela while imprisoning opponents, preventing free elections and killing democrats like Fernando Alban. This is not about foreign intervention in Venezuela. It is not an attempt to impose a result on the Venezuelan people. Democracy never needs to be imposed. It is tyranny that has to be imposed. This discussion in the Security Council is about the right of the Venezuelan people to direct their own internal affairs and choose the future of their own country democratically.”

    2019-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8452 (2019) · source

  15. “I had not intended to speak, but it seems to me that it is worthwhile, and indeed necessary, to respond to the statements made on behalf of the regime in Venezuela. 1 cannot respond to every attack that was made against every country here, such as the insults that were made by calling many countries here satellites. In fact, it was interesting that every single country that the previous speaker attacked or criticized was a democracy. Every single one that was criticized was a democracy. It was just a series of insults that reflects the fact that today there is a satellite present here, and it is Venezuela, which, unfortunately, has become a satellite of Cuba and Russia.”

    2019-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8452 (2019) · source