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Arreaza

lines on the record: 74
first: 2019-01-26
most recent: 2019-02-26
sittings or episodes: 2
sources: un-security-council

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“Three planes, including the presidential plane, went to pick up more than 230 Venezuelan migrants. Three planes were sent again today, as our Embassy is full. We are paying for hotels, even with the difficulties in sending money to our diplomatic missions because of the blockade. Yet overflight authorization was not granted to aircraft on a humanitarian mission to pick up Venezuelans so they could return t their homes and families. This is persecution. What is it about, this war against Venezuela? We are awaiting a visit from Mr. Eduardo Stein, which should take place this week. We are also awaiting a visit from a former President and our friend, Michelle Bachelet. With regard to the violence, you here are saying that the dictatorship is repressing and killing people. Please study the history of Venezuela over the past few years.”
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“We are working with our people to try to restore the economy, with plans to boost economic growth and achieve social and economic prosperity. However, how many times have we asked the Governments of Colombia, Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Argentina for data? How many times have we said, send it to us? We know that a Venezuelan might leave through a bridge to Colombia and then end up in Chile. How do I know that? You know what happened in recent days? The President of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, called for the establishment of brigades to go after Venezuelan migrants in Ecuador. Our Embassy in Ecuador filled up with migrants asking us to help them leave Ecuador because they were facing xenophobic, fascist persecution in Ibarra, in the north of the country. It was very painful. And do you know what happened this Wednesday?”
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“I would say with respect: ask the International Monetary Fund about the information provided by Venezuela and whether or not its statistics on inflation are anywhere close to the statistics we heard today. Ask the Director of the International Monetary Fund. Be a bit more rigorous in your investigations when speaking to the world from this forum, which is essential when it comes to the future, peace and security of humankind. But ask about the 3 million migrants as well. As mentioned by by the Foreign Minister of Colombia, there is indeed a problem with migration, one that we have not seen before. But it has a lot to do with the financial persecution of Venezuela and the economic situation, which we do not deny.”
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“A document exists, likely stored away in the archives of the presidency of the Dominican Republic, that contains a signed preliminary agreement. When we were about to sign the agreement, President Medino and former Spanish Prime Minister Rodriguez Zapatero, along with other Foreign Ministers supporting them and other supporters in Venezuela, were made to look like fools. They did not sign the agreement. By coincidence, Rex Tillerson was in Bogota at the time. According to reliable sources, the head of the delegation of Venezuela, who today is taking refuge in Colombia, received a call instructing him not to sign the agreement and to further complicate the situation. These are truths. Furthermore, let me say that, without rigorous substantiation, many untruths have been spoken here.”
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“There have been 18 or 19 rounds of sanctions against Venezuela, but according to them they do not exist. We must think about that. There is an ideological wall being erected around Venezuela. We support the dialogue initiative that was proposed earlier by the representative of the Dominican Republic. But that did not come out of nowhere. President Nicolas Maduro appointed me - if I may be allowed to speak of myself- as Foreign Minister in August 2017. Two days later I met with you at your home, Minister Miguel Vargas, and after that with President Danilo Medino at the presidential palace, and called on the leaders of the opposition and President Maduro to carry out a dialogue in Venezuela. And what happened? We reached an agreement. You know that, Sir.”
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“It amounts to $23 billion, thanks to the blockade and persecution of the property and resources of Venezuela. Would the Venezuelan economy be in its current problematic state if it had been able to count on those resources? An offer of $20 million was made at the Organization of American States, which they then took from us. At Euroclear alone, in Belgium, there is $1.2 billion in frozen funds - Venezuelan wealth. We cannot conduct any banking transactions. Any transaction that is conducted through New York or London cannot take place; the funds are either returned or they freeze the money. Is that really fair to the Venezuelan people? The representative of Russia was very clear here - but for others there are no so-called sanctions; there is no blockade. That is a lie.”
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“Many of the points made by Secretary Pompeo today are reminiscent of the rhetoric used during the Cold War and by Senator McCarthy and President Nixon. They are trying to bring back the Cold War and the Monroe Doctrine of 1823. It is not for nothing that, in 1929, Liberator Simon Bolivar said that the United States appeared to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty. It was a self-fulfilling prophecy. In other words, it was a prediction, because that is exactly what the United States has done. Do you know what the cost has been to Venezuela since 2017, when the United States started to implement unilateral coercive measures against it, in contravention of international law, and up until December 2018?”
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“Presidents then came forward - from Colombia, Chile, Europe - to say that they would not recognize the results of the elections. Again, that was months before the elections took place. When has that ever happened? How many cases of the elections in Venezuela being impugned have there been? Go for yourselves. Show me there was fraud, even one vote. Mr. Duncan said that there was vote stuffing, and yet Venezuela uses an automated electronic voting system, and that includes verification. The system produces a receipt that is then compared with the electronic tally. And the tally matches up 100 per cent of the time. The United States wants to build a physical wall on the border with Mexico, but it is really building an ideological wall.”
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“Even European Presidents pressured him, as did, of course, every United States spokesperson. He did not withdraw it. But do you know what he did? He came to the United Nations and told Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that it was essential that the United Nations send observers to monitor the elections. That did not take place. Why? Why were there no observers from the United Nations? He was even in contact with Federica Mogherini. I myself took Ms. Mogherini an invitation to request that observers be sent to monitor the elections in Venezuela. They refused outright. And why? Because the plan for the coup d'etat was already under way. Three months prior to the elections Deputy Secretary of State Sullivan was the first to say that the elections would be fraudulent.”
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“As President Nicolas Maduro asked yesterday, why does not Pedro sanchez hold presidential elections? Who elected him? Dare to hold elections in the United Kingdom. Why is President Macron focusing on Venezuela, instead of devoting his time to the ongoing yellow jacket protests and the French working class? As soon as someone wearing a yellow jacket approaches the Elysee Palace, the guards all come out because they are afraid of the people. Mind your own business. We do not interfere in yours. Respect and comply with the Charter of the United Nations. Respect the self-determination of peoples. Candidate Henri Falcon was here last year; you know him well, Mr. President. He led Henrique Capriles' presidential campaign in 2012. Mr. Capriles lost to Comandante Hugo Chavez. Oh, how they pressured Henri Falcon to withdraw his candidacy.”
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“Many small States of the Caribbean - respectable States - have not yielded to, or been blackmailed by, the United States, not at the United Nations, in the Organization of American States or anywhere else, despite even public threats by Vice-President Pence, the Secretary of State and by some in Congress. Not them. It is understandable that satellite Governments in Latin America would yield to the United States in that way. But it is surprising that Europe falls in line behind the United States - and not so much the United States, but the Government of Donald Trump. Europe is giving us eight days? For what? How do they think they have any power to impose deadlines or ultimatums on a sovereign people? How do they come up with such a meddlesome action - I would even call it puerile?”
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“The only missing piece to the strategy for the coup d'etat was an oath. The Associated Press, which is also a United States news agency, very clearly today came out with information that the member of Parliament in question made covert trips to Colombia and the United States to meet with officials. The strategy was very well put together, but ham-fisted. The carried it out quite badly, leaving too many trails. One almost has to be sorry - we understand that satellite Governments in the region have as Presidents business persons who are subordinated to the interests of the United States. But not so with respectable Governments.”
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“It is very clear and shameless: you can see through this coup d'etat from every angle. This cannot be accepted by the United Nations. Rather, it must be condemned. I wish there were a Security Council meeting to determine who was behind the coup d'e'tat and punish them. It would not take too much judging to do that, for the proof abounds on social media and in press releases. I have here today's Wall Street Journal, which, as The New York Times did in September 2018, shows that members of the Venezuelan military held meetings with United States officials to supposedly overthrow President Maduro. That is not coming from the intelligence services of Venezuela, Cuba or Russia; it is The New York Times, and also newspapers in Spain. Today it is in the Wall Street Journal. It is right here very clearly.”
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“The United States was expecting a coup d'etat and military uprising on 22 or 23 January, which was not in the offing because the National Bolivarian Armed Forces put their lives on the line to defend the Constitution. The United States could not, through extortion, financing or incitement, convince our military forces to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro, and it will not be able to do so. It was yet another misstep by the Government of the United States and those who joined them. This is just incredible, like recognizing a new State at the United Nations: when President Trump tweeted that he recognized the member of Parliament as the dictator of Venezuela, immediately Colombia, Chile, Argentina and Guatemala were all waiting for the order to recognize him too.”
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“Meanwhile, other Presidents in Central America have been elected without even being candidates in elections. They have lost elections. There were even reports by the European Union and the Organization of American States citing election fraud. But then Donald Trump makes a call; and they promise him that they will move their Embassies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. And then that is recognized not only by Trump but by all of the satellite Governments in the region of our America. I simply wanted to illustrate the pattern we see in social media, which really see. And I refer only to Twitter, not other social media, and to official spokespersons of the Government of the United States. Note how the trend ticked up dramatically in January.”
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“What occurred in 2002 set the precedent for the situation in Venezuela today. At the time the United States was behind the coup d'etat, it was not in front ofit like it is now. It recognized the Carmona dictatorship, which lasted 47 hours. An investigation conducted by United States experts proved, through a series of declassified documents, that the United States had been involved in the coup attempt. Something similar occurred in 2004 with President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti, and in 2009 in Honduras, where at first no one had even suspected that the United States had been behind the coup attempt, until Hillary Clinton admitted in a book that she had given the order to topple the then President of Honduras because she wanted to encourage the formation of a constituent assembly.”
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“President, died in the Dominican Republic in 1965 following the invasion, supported by the Organization of American States, to topple a Government that did not suit its members or whose ideology they did not like - a Government let by the great Dominican, a great Latin American, Juan Bosch? With respect to the Monroe Doctrine, the United States should have been the country scrutinized and subjected to ongoing review, given its perpetual disregard for international law, interference in the internal affairs of countries and its invasions following coups d'etat. Then came the 1973 coup d'etat against President Salvador Allende, following the invasion in Guatemala. In 2002, under President George Bush, there was a coup d'etat in Venezuela. It failed, but the dictator was recognized.”
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“In 1914 the United States invaded Mexico; in 1915 Haiti; in 1916 the Dominican Republic; in 1918 Panama; in 1924 Honduras; in 1925 Panama; in 1926 and 1927 Nicaragua; in 1930 the Dominican Republic; in 1933 and 1934 Nicaragua; and in 1941, Panama. Then came the School of the Americas, followed by the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance and Cuba in 1952. Jacobo Arbenz was overthrown in 1954 in Guatemala. In 1956 the United States invaded Nicaragua. In 1960 President Eisenhower authorized a large-scale covert operation to topple the Government of Fidel Castro, and then came Giron beach in 1961. I could go on. Joao Goulart in Brazil in 1964. How many people, Mr.”
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“How is it possible that a President who threatened to use military force - not John Bolton, not Mike Pence, not Marco Rubio, but Donald Trump himself- against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has not been challenged by global multilateral institutions and now takes it upon himself to accuse the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela because its Government and its people have strictly adhered to their Constitution and to international law? In 1911 there was a military invasion in Mexico. In 1912 United States Marines invaded Nicaragua, which then led to an occupation that lasted almost continuously until 1933, when Augusto Ce'sar Sandino and the Nicaraguan people threw them out of the country.”
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“Rex Tillerson, former Secretary of State of the United States, and then President Trump himself, on the first day of the general debate of this session of the General Assembly (see A/73/PV.6), on the sacred podium of multilateralism, not only announced sanctions - unilateral coercive measures in contravention of international law - but also had the nerve to announce a series of measures against Venezuela that blatantly violate the Charter of the United Nations, the sacred charter of multilateralism.”
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“If any of this meeting's participants were to ask, in what article or provision of the Charter of the United Nations can the legal basis be found for the self-proclamation of an individual who was not elected by anyone as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, we would have a legal debate, but I do not think that is going to be possible. We also have to ask ourselves, when is this all going to end? Mr.”
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“He was not sworn in by any institution or formal process or ceremony, but by means of the self-proclamation of a member of Parliament in a crowd, at one of the many peaceful public rallies held in Venezuela over the past few years. I therefore ask, if we consider article 233 the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, word for word, provision by provision, sentence by sentence: where is the legality? And going beyond our internal legal order, where is the legality with regard to the fundamental principles of public international law? Or are we now discarding international relations based on international law and imposing international relations based on the use of force, while bending multilateral institutions to our arbitrary goals and objectives?”
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“It is in front of the coup d'etat. It is spearheading the coup d'etat. It dictates orders not only to the Venezuelan opposition but also to the satellite Governments of the United States in the region, and apparently in Europe and other parts of the world as well. We have all kinds of proof: tweets, social network posts, calls from Secretary of State Pompeo and Vice-President Pence to the security forces and the National Bolivarian Armed Forces to speak out against the legitimate authorities and the constitutional Government of President Nicolas Maduro. It was a tweet with a video from Vice-President Pence on 22 January that gave the green light for the coup d'e'tat in Venezuela and also, according to Under-Secretary- General Rosemary DiCarlo, for someone to name himself as President.”
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“Mr. Arreaza (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): It is finally our turn to speak. We have a written statement, but I would like to make a few preliminary remarks. We would also like to thank Mr. Mike Pompeo because, in the light of the failure on Thursday, 24 January, at the Organization of American States, the United States was bold enough to impose a draft resolution and request that the Security Council convene today's meeting. Both President Maduro and I had also been thinking about calling on the Council to debate, not the situation in Venezuela but rather the unconscionable intervention of the United States in our country using the crudest means. We must point out that, on this occasion, the United States is not behind the coup d'etat. I admit that it is not behind the coup d'etat.”
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