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2019-01-26
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2019-01-26
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  1. “Today, we should all stand together against the tyranny of Nicolas Maduro and in support of legitimate democratic forces in Venezuela. Venezuela can and must recover from the depths of its current despair. To do so, it needs an end to tyranny, an end to corruption and an urgent return to freedom, democracy and the rule of law. The Security Council must make its view clear and we must urgently help to pave the way to a brighter future for the Venezuela that Maduro has so culpably ruined.”

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

  2. “We stand with the Organization of American States and the Lima Group, whose members last September referred the Venezuelan Government to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity. Citing over 8,000 extrajudicial executions, 12,000 arbitrary arrests and the detention of 13,000 political prisoners, they made history by making it the first ever case in which an entire State has been referred to the ICC. We stand shoulder to shoulder with the United States in saying that the National Assembly and its President, Juan Guaido, are best placed to lead Venezuela to the restoration of its democracy, its economy and its freedom. Therefore, we believe that Juan Guaido is the right man to take Venezuela forward and we will recognize him as constitutional interim President if new elections are not announced within eight days.”

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

  3. “It is therefore right that we should now respond robustly to the courageous steps taken by the Venezuelan people and the political opposition by bringing this critical issue here to the Security Council. Council members must recognize their responsibility to ensure that the United Nations uses its leadership to help achieve positive change in Venezuela. Our efforts must now focus on finding a way out of the crisis that has devastated the country. Let me make our position clear. The United Kingdom stands with the European Union in demanding urgent, free and fair elections at the earliest opportunity and in calling for a legitimate Government to be established.”

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

  4. “The political opposition has been suppressed and intimidated, its leaders have fled or been imprisoned, and we will never forget that opposition activist Fernando Alban Salazar, mentioned just now by Secretary Pompeo, was detained and then found dead beneath the windows of the National Intelligence Service facility. The world can now see that the presidency of Nicolas Maduro no longer rests on democratic foundations. The presidency of Nicolas Maduro is not legitimate. We, the United Kingdom, unreservedly praise and support the extraordinary courage of Juan Guaido in his stand against Maduro's fraud, corruption and undemocratic status. We applaud Juan Guaido's decision to assert the legitimate authority of the National Assembly.”

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

  5. “That rule of law has collapsed in Venezuela. Worse, it has been continuously eroded, undermined and eradicated by the dictatorial abuses of Nicolas Maduro. Hand in hand with the economic devastation caused by that man has come the parallel removal of liberty, justice and freedom. We have seen the theft from the Venezuelan people of its democracy. Maduro has attempted to delegitimize the National Assembly, he has created the artificial and illegitimate Constituent Assembly, and he has ruthlessly put an end to free and fair elections by stuffing ballot boxes and corrupting democratic decision.”

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

  6. “The ranting socialism of Nicolas Maduro Moros has destroyed an entire country and, despite his self- congratulatory moral posturing, his enduring legacy will be to have made the poor not just poorer, but also destitute. It is our concern for the plight of Venezuela and the country's people that motivates us here today, not the sentiments of anything that can possibly be described as "colonial". How, indeed, can any self- respecting Government possibly justify supporting the poisonous regime of the nation-destroying Mr. Maduro? But, in addition to holding the opinion we do because of our concern for the people of Venezuela, the United Nations and we, the Security Council, are also here to resolve the world's worst sins. To do so, we must all uphold the rule of law, which we firmly believe should govern the affairs of all.”

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

  7. “There are probably only a few moments in history when a country's rate of inflation has had to be measured in millions ofper cent. But in the case of Venezuela, this is such a moment. Beneath that stark statistic rests a scene of total economic collapse and, with it, a comprehensive picture of human misery and degradation from which only the corrupt Venezuelan elite are able to escape. People are starving, children are malnourished, essential items are absent from the bare shelves of bankrupt stores and, from that wretchedness, millions have fled to seek refuge in neighbouring countries, where they have been rescued by an outpouring of human generosity. That inexcusable and wholly avoidable wasteland is entirely the creation of one man and his cronies.”

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