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Moncada

lines on the record: 294
first: 2014-07-22
most recent: 2022-05-19
sittings or episodes: 28
sources: un-security-council

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“For all those reasons the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela proposes the lifting of the unilateral coercive measures illegally imposed against States Members of the United Nations, as an urgent step and as part of the global plan that must be adopted to face the imminent food crisis that we are all going to suffer, whether as a result of shortages or inflation. It is time to strengthen our national food systems as essential parts of a larger global economic fabric that allows access to capital, technology, energy, seeds, fertilizers, transportation and distribution to thereby increase our capacity to resolve this new crisis. It is time for cooperation, solidarity and joint action — without exception — to put an end to world hunger.”
2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Worse still, the coercion exerted on the rest of the world to prevent legal trade with Russia and cruelly sacrifice its peoples is not only illegal, but also imposes unacceptable risks to the food, social and political security of hundreds of millions of people in developing countries. That is not the way to resolve the looming global food crisis. Global food security is complex, and many steps must be taken to avoid the most pessimistic predictions. Therefore, it is necessary to emphasize that any plan to face the food crisis that overlooks the destructive impact of unilateral coercive measures and does not propose their complete and immediate elimination is neither sincere nor credible and, above all, doomed to failure. It will be yet another manoeuvre to take selfish national advantage of an international crisis.”
2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036Resumption1 (2022) · source
“The response to that new crisis must be to unleash the food production potential of the entire world, as well as to increase international trade, in order to reduce the risk of food shortages in the coming months and years. However, in complete contradiction to that aim, the largest set of unilateral coercive measures since the Second World War has been imposed. The planned isolation of the Russian Federation to worsen the living conditions of its people, with the aim of provoking regime change, is an unacceptable proposal from every point of view: be it moral, legal, economic, rational or simply human.”
2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036Resumption1 (2022) · source
“The truth is that today there are at least eight countries in Africa on the list of States on which the Government of the United States of America illegally imposes unilateral coercive measures. It is impossible to promote the fight against hunger while at the same time punishing the economies of the most vulnerable countries to obtain geopolitical advantages. And neither is it possible to purport to express concerns about food security when at the same time food is disregarded as an inalienable human right. Climate change, economic crises, armed conflicts and the COVID-19 pandemic are factors that exacerbate global food insecurity. The conflict in Eastern Europe is a new disturbing factor.”
2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Furthermore, it underscored “the need to refrain from imposing measures that are not in line with international law, including the Charter of the United Nations, and that endanger food security and nutrition”. The adverse impact of unilateral coercive measures on global food security is therefore clear. Several countries can help increase the stability of international food security if they are allowed to fully develop their capacities. Venezuela is one example. The African continent is another example. Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents in the current crisis and, at the same time, has enormous productive potential that could be unleashed under the right conditions. However, that is an impossible plan under the oppression of coercive measures.”
2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Unilateral coercive measures are weapons of economic warfare that obstruct access to financial systems, literally steal the international reserves of entire nations, violate the supply chains of national and international food systems and increase global food instability. Contrary to what the offending States say, food and medicines are not exempt from so-called sanctions, and the so-called humanitarian exemptions are actually non-existent and ineffective, as independent United Nations experts have acknowledged. In that context, we recall that, at its second International Conference on Nutrition, the World Health Organization acknowledged that “trade is a key element in achieving food security and nutrition for all, through a system of fair and market-oriented global trade”.”
2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036Resumption1 (2022) · source
“They are a policy of aggression that has worsened during the global economic recession and the humanitarian emergency caused by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Those measures are part of a hostile strategy that applies maximum pressure and is aimed at the economic suffocation and international isolation of States. The goal is to inflict the greatest possible suffering, exacerbate the living conditions of populations and cause internal upheaval that facilitates regime change within sovereign States. They are a tool used to achieve geopolitical domination to advance the selfish interests of a Power bloc with global ambitions.”
2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Mr. Moncada (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): The issue being debated today suffers from a structural contradiction caused by those who convened today’s meeting. There is a clear contradiction in raising the issue of growing global food insecurity while also imposing unilateral coercive measures on more than 20 Members of the Organization, which represent a third of the planet’s population. It is not possible to propose solutions to the global food crisis and at the same time contravene the Charter of the United Nations and international law, threaten international peace and security and violate the human rights of entire peoples, in particular the right to food. Unilateral coercive measures are a planned and deliberate violation of human rights and the right to food.”
2022-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9036Resumption1 (2022) · source
“That clearly demonstrates the ineffectiveness, or rather the non-existence, of the supposed humanitarian exemptions in force. That is acknowledged in the conclusions of the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights. In conclusion, the Group of Friends undertakes to spare no effort in preserving, promoting and defending the validity and primacy of the United Nations Charter. To that end, we must, on the one hand, ensure that unilateral sanctions are fully and immediately lifted and, on the other hand, move forward in conducting a comprehensive and exhaustive review of measures imposed by the Security Council so as to ensure that they are in accordance with the letter and spirit of the principles enshrined in our founding Charter. The meeting rose at 12.45 p.m.”
2022-02-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8962 (2022) · source
“We therefore call on the Security Council to condemn once and for all the imposition and strengthening of unilateral coercive measures, particularly amid the worst pandemic facing humankind in the past 100 years. We further call on the Council not to ignore the many calls for their elimination, particularly in the current international situation. Their negative and often tragic impact, as documented by independent United Nations experts, added to the impact of secondary sanctions and the phenomenon of so-called overcompliance, continues to prevent States under unilateral coercive measures from effectively and promptly obtaining food, medicines, supplies, equipment, vaccines and other essential goods for the civilian population.”
2022-02-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8962 (2022) · source
“In other words, they create and exacerbate poverty and inequality and represent a deliberate attack on the right to development. Likewise, interference in the internal and sovereign affairs of States, coupled with the imposition of economic, financial or commercial unilateral coercive measures, in addition to representing widespread violation of human rights and causing great suffering and pain for entire populations, deliberately fuels conflicts and crises, including through the creation of intentional human-made humanitarian crises by the very sponsors of those illegal measures, which have now even become structural factors and key drivers of contemporary crises.”
2022-02-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8962 (2022) · source
“Its goal, however, remains the same — to bend the political will of sovereign and independent nations and restrict their industrial development and technological progress, while inflicting the greatest possible pain and suffering on their populations — all within the framework of a policy of maximum calculated cruelty. The implementation of unilateral coercive measures — the goal of which is to attack the civilian population as part of a generalized and systematic policy that ultimately generates unnecessary suffering amounting to crimes against humanity — impedes the full achievement of economic and social development, particularly in developing countries, and consequently has a negative impact on the realization and full enjoyment of human rights.”
2022-02-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8962 (2022) · source
“That practice is not only a flagrant violation of the Charter but also a sign of contempt for the authority and powers of this organ, which in turn undermines its integrity and effectiveness. Today we are seeing not only an unprecedented resort to unilateral sanctions but also a new generation of illegal measures, which are currently much crueller and more destructive. Such illegal measures are used as weapons in the pursuit of geopolitical and economic objectives, but now their implementation is being expanded by and coordinated among a larger group of Governments. It is what might be called the new group unilateralism.”
2022-02-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8962 (2022) · source
“Humanitarian assistance constitutes a fundamental component of the protection of civilians in armed conflict and must be provided in accordance with the guiding principles set out in General Assembly resolution 46/182. We must raise awareness of the growing and worrisome trend that, when it comes to sanctions, the authority and powers of the Security Council have been usurped by a number of States that consider unilateral coercive measures — whether political or economic in nature — as their preferred instrument for exerting pressure, particularly on developing countries, in order to bend the sovereign will of another State to win any kind of advantage.”
2022-02-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8962 (2022) · source
“Similarly, efforts must also be made to address concerns about issues of due process and transparency in inclusion, exclusion and exemption procedures, including those of a humanitarian nature and in relation to the possibility that the populations of countries subject to such measures be allowed access to adequate resources for the financing of humanitarian imports, especially as a concrete way to prevent any possible negative humanitarian and socioeconomic impacts of measures adopted by the Security Council on the basic living conditions of the civilian population. We also reject the manipulation of humanitarian assistance for political purposes.”
2022-02-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8962 (2022) · source
“We believe, however, that the measures provided for in Chapter VII must be taken only as a last resort and in accordance with the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations. Full consideration must be given to the short- and long-term effects of measures taken or to be taken by the Security Council, precisely in order to ensure that unintended consequences, in particular the negative impact on civilians and the provision of humanitarian assistance, are avoided and prevented at all times. We emphasize the need to ensure that the populations of States subject to such measures not be directly or indirectly victimized or deprived of their own means of subsistence and development.”
2022-02-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8962 (2022) · source
“Mr. Moncada (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): I will deliver an abridged version of my statement on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations. I have the honour to speak on behalf of the delegations of Algeria, Angola, Belarus, Bolivia, Cambodia, China, Cuba, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Iran, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Nicaragua, the State of Palestine, Russia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Syria, Zimbabwe and my own country, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, all of which are members of the Group of Friends. The Group of Friends recognizes the authority, functions and powers of the Security Council in the maintenance of international peace and security.”
2022-02-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8962 (2022) · source
“We reiterate our firm and principled position of support and adherence to its very tenets, which not only are the legally binding and agreed rules by all members of the international community to govern our system of international relations but are also indispensable for fostering international peace and security, the rule of law, economic development and social progress. We must not lose sight of that as we mobilize to redouble our collective efforts to advance our common agenda and ensure that no one is left behind, while delivering on the promise of the Charter that starts with “We the peoples of the United Nations”.”
2021-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8906Resumption1 (2021) · source
“Therefore, all organs of the United Nations, the United Nations system in general and the international community as a whole must unfailingly reject the promulgation and application, in all circumstances and in the interest of prevention, particularly in conflict situations, of those illegal measures. They must call for their complete and immediate termination, mindful of the fact that they have become structural factors and fundamental drivers of contemporary crises. In conclusion, the Group of Friends vows to spare no effort in preserving, promoting and defending the prevalence and validity of the Charter of the United Nations.”
2021-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8906Resumption1 (2021) · source
“Unilateral coercive measures of an economic or financial nature or involving trade, which are not in accordance with international law or the Charter of the United Nations, impede the full achievement of economic and social development, particularly in developing countries, and have a negative impact on the full enjoyment and realization of human rights. In other words, such arbitrary actions and unilateral approaches not only foster the conditions for poverty and inequality but also represent a deliberate attack on the right to development. Interference in the internal and sovereign affairs of States, coupled with the imposition of so- called sanctions, apart from representing a massive violation of human rights and producing great suffering and pain on entire populations, foster the deliberate exacerbation of conflicts and crises.”
2021-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8906Resumption1 (2021) · source
“It is important to emphasize that prevention must be based on the tools provided by the United Nations Charter, particularly those referred to in Chapter VI on the pacific settlement of disputes. In that regard, we must also understand that there is no one-size-fits-all solution to each and every situation, and that, if we truly agree on the premise that there is no peace without development and no development without peace, then the root causes and structural drivers of crisis or conflicts must be comprehensively and effectively addressed, in the interest of world peace and stability.”
2021-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8906Resumption1 (2021) · source
“Nevertheless, we caution against the invocation of the ideals of prevention for interfering in the internal affairs of States or for undermining their sovereignty, their political independence or the right to self-determination of their peoples, including through resort to the use or threat of use of force against their territorial integrity. Such adventuristic approaches not only go against the very letter and spirit of the Charter, but also have the potential to undermine the credibility of the United Nations. In that context, we also underline the primary responsibility of States for preventing conflicts and ensuring the wellbeing and protection of their peoples.”
2021-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8906Resumption1 (2021) · source
“The Group of Friends agrees that prevention is at the heart of the United Nations, as reflected in our pledge to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, and to that end, both the Security Council and the United Nations as a whole have a responsibility, as envisaged in Article 1, paragraph 1 of the Charter, which provides for the adoption of “effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace”. The pursuit of peace is, indeed, a common aspiration of humankind and a noble ideal that must be a priority for the entire United Nations system and for the international community as a whole. We therefore support efforts in that regard.”
2021-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8906Resumption1 (2021) · source
“We refer, among others, to the growing resort to unilateralism, attacks on multilateralism, claims of non-existent exceptionalisms, attempts to ignore and even substitute the purposes and principles contained in the Charter with a new set of so-called rules that have never been discussed in an inclusive or transparent manner, and selective approaches or accommodative interpretations of the provisions of the United Nations Charter. Those practices contribute in no way to addressing, through peaceful means and cooperation, the complex, emerging and common challenges currently faced by humankind. Quite to the contrary, they contribute to an increase in uncertainty, distrust, instability and tensions around the world.”
2021-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8906Resumption1 (2021) · source
“It is the code of conduct that has ruled international relations among States for the past 76 years, on the basis of such timeless principles as the self-determination of peoples, the sovereign equality of States, non-interference in the internal affairs of States, and refraining from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State. Those are all basic norms and principles that, in addition to being the foundation for modern-day international law, remain as relevant today as they were in 1945. In that context, we express our serious concern at the current and growing threats to the Charter of the United Nations, which is the motivation and reason for the very existence of our Group.”
2021-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8906Resumption1 (2021) · source
“Mr. Moncada (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is honoured to take the floor on behalf of the delegations of Algeria, Angola, Belarus, Bolivia, Cambodia, China, Cuba, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Iran, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Nicaragua, the State of Palestine, Russia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Syria, Zimbabwe and my own country, all of which are members of the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations. We thank the delegation of Mexico for convening this open debate. The Group of Friends considers the Charter of the United Nations to be a milestone and a true act of faith in the best of humankind.”
2021-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8906Resumption1 (2021) · source
“In conclusion, while poverty, inequality and exclusion are structural causes of conflict, there are countries that fabricate such causes through the illegal application of unilateral coercive measures in order to expand their domination over other sovereign States. The Security Council has at its disposal an effective tool for conflict prevention if it decides to immediately suspend all coercive measures applied illegally without its authority. We make that formal proposal to the States members of the Security Council in order to strengthen international peace and security.”
2021-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8900Resumption1 (2021) · source
“Those actions become crimes against humanity when they intensify amid the worst pandemic that the world has suffered in a century. It is a systematic attack that particularly strikes the most vulnerable sectors of the civilian population. It is a policy of cruelty calculated to gain colonial advantage through suffering and pain. We must also remember that there are several General Assembly resolutions that prohibit the use of essential goods, such as food and medicine, as instruments of political and economic coercion, and that under no circumstances should people be deprived of their own means of subsistence and development. All those resolutions are being violated by the Government of the United States of America.”
2021-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8900Resumption1 (2021) · source
“We have seen how conflicts are fabricated so that, after plundering the sovereign resources of nations and plunging them into poverty, humanitarian appeals are made, or peacekeeping measures are ordered, that take decades to alleviate the wounds opened by the initial conflict. In the case of Venezuela, the implementation of unilateral coercive measures by the United States of America demonstrates that country’s violation of the exclusive authority of the Security Council and the United Nations Charter. The United States Government has waged an illegal campaign of aggression against the Venezuelan people, with coercive measures that lead to poverty, destroy national development and violate human rights, in order to provoke a crisis that will allow it to intervene in our internal affairs.”
2021-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8900Resumption1 (2021) · source
“To that end, it employs political destabilization, disregard for the expression of citizen majorities in elections, the financing of mercenaries and terrorists and economic coercion by applying unilateral coercive measures that undermine the authority of the Security Council. It imposes group unilateralism and purports to have exclusive moral authority in matters of democracy and human rights. Moreover, that country believes that it has a clear destiny that allows it to engage in espionage and threaten the use of force, in several cases going so far as the illegal use of force. Such acts of aggression against sovereign States are widely known in the world.”
2021-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8900Resumption1 (2021) · source
“Mr. Moncada (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): We appreciate the convening of this meeting, and we welcome, Mr. President, your presence here among us at this meeting. There are Powers in the international order that, by promoting exclusion and inequality, act as true makers of conflicts. Their attempts to impose a particular vision of the world undermine global diversity and lead them down the path of coercion. Those conflicts are usually the result of attempts to impose rules of conduct that are contrary to international law and violate the Charter of the United Nations. The making of conflict is driven, guided and financed by a permanent member of the Security Council, which, sensing a decline in its influence, seeks to restore its dominance by intervening in the internal affairs of other States.”
2021-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8900Resumption1 (2021) · source
“That failure led to the Second World War II, and it is our duty to prevent a third. In conclusion, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as a responsible member of the international community, today reaffirms its commitment to the Charter and to the norms of international law. We put into practice the peaceful coexistence among nations, based on mutual respect. We are therefore announcing today our support for the establishment of a group of friends in defence of the Charter of the United Nations, with the purpose of safeguarding for all the peoples of the world the effective application of the most important legal, moral and intellectual instrument devised by humankind, which has succeeded since 1945 in preventing a third world war.”
2020-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8699Resumption1 (2020) · source
“The answer is very simply — no Government has any such authority. No such authority exists. Our 193 States and, more specifically, the members of the Security Council, tasked with taking measures to maintain or restore international peace and security, must prevent the catastrophe that is war and uphold the Charter of the United Nations. Throughout human history there has never been a better alternative to the Charter. Ignoring its value and binding character is not only a betrayal of the past generations who bequeathed us this tool for peace but also a betrayal of future generations who deserve to live free from the unspeakable suffering of war. We cannot allow the United Nations to perish on our watch or for it to suffer the same fate as the defunct League of Nations.”
2020-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8699Resumption1 (2020) · source
“We ask by what authority a Government may systematically violate, with impunity, the Charter of the United Nations by conducting indiscriminate bombings and extrajudicial executions; by violating the territorial integrity of or invading sovereign countries; by imposing coercive measures against more than one-third of humankind; by violating the principle of non-interference in internal affairs; by imposing collective punishment against civilian populations; by defending torture as a State practice; by threatening entire nations with naval blockades; by threatening to destroy the cultural heritage of a people; by violating the immunity of diplomatic headquarters; by conducting economic terrorism; or by preventing diplomats from States that do not obey its orders from exercising their rights in the United Nations?”
2020-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8699Resumption1 (2020) · source
“This is a return to the darkest moments of the last century, when domestic national objectives combined with ambitions of global domination to fuel the use of armed force out no international legal controls. This is endless war as a method of oppression and expansion of power — a world with no Charter of the United Nations!”
2020-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8699Resumption1 (2020) · source
“All of us accept, for example, that the principles of political independence and the sovereign equality of States, non-intervention in the internal affairs of States, the peaceful resolution of disputes and the right to the self-determination of peoples, among other things, are essential for the maintenance of international peace and security. Today we are witnessing the resurgence of supremacist ideologies that deny the equality and diversity of humankind, driving the world to the brink of war with unpredictable consequences — an armed conflict with which one State, believing itself to be above international law, threatens the very existence of an entire civilization; a State that trumpets its military power and its exceptionalist ideology to impose its national sovereignty over the sovereignty of all the peoples of the world.”
2020-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8699Resumption1 (2020) · source
“The Charter is an act of faith in the best of humankind and a code of conduct for all States Members of the United Nations. The principle of the legal equality of States obliges all of us — without distinction between large and small, or weak and powerful — to respect it in letter and spirit alike. There is no scope for any State to proclaim itself to be exceptional or to decide when to comply with the Charter or to ignore it when convenient. Likewise, we are obliged to abide by the Charter in its entirety; we may not decide to accept some sections and reject others.”
2020-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8699Resumption1 (2020) · source
“Mr. Moncada (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): We congratulate Viet Nam on having recently joined the Security Council for the term 2020-2021 and on assuming the presidency of the Council. We also express our best wishes to the rest of the non-permanent members. Our country associates itself with the statement delivered by the representative of the Republic of Azerbaijan on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement. Almost 75 years ago, as a result of the vast devastation inflicted by the Second World War, the international community decided to join forces to forge a tool to prohibit war in the conduct of foreign policy. The outcome was the Charter of the United Nations, a treaty that is today legally binding on 193 States and enshrines the basic principles and norms governing international relations.”
2020-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8699Resumption1 (2020) · source
“It is a world without the United Nations. Therefore, we can conclude only that Government of President Trump is a threat to international peace and security. We in Venezuela reject the nightmare of perpetual war proposed by Mr. Trump. We urgently demand that the Security Council enforce the United Nations Charter, uphold international law, maintain peace, halt the imminent disaster of a world Power that behaves like an outlaw State and, using its authority, stop Trump's war. In sum, we ask that Trump's war be stopped.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“Every threat and action by the United States against Venezuela is illegal and criminal and could lead to disaster for the civilian population. President Trump's threats and aggression are in line with the comments made here in the Chamber by the representative of the United States a few days ago. According to the official, international law and Security Council resolutions, which are binding on all States and are part of international law, are not references for the decisions of the United States. The world that President Trump offers is a world without the rule of law; where children, women and the elderly are the primary victims of the calamities of war; and where humankind lives in constant fear of the abuses of an unpredictable Government, guided by a supremacist ideology that offers only hatred and violence.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“We are also here to denounce the fact that President Trump yesterday announced to the media that he is considering imposing a naval blockade and quarantine against Venezuela. According to Article 41 of the Charter of the United Nations, such measures involve the use of armed force, which, due to their gravity and devastating effects on civilians, can be applied only with the authorization of the Security Council, in cases of threat to the peace, breach of the peace or acts of aggression. We therefore ask, when did the Council approve such force? When did the Council determine that Venezuela is a threat to the peace, or that it breached the peace, or that it committed acts of aggression? It is clear that none of the assumptions for such serious action exists and that none of the legal requirements has been met.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“Trump's branch of the armed forces in South America and the Caribbean, has this year conducted more than 55 spy plane incursions into Venezuela's flight information region, without prior warning or without providing a reason, thereby endangering air safety in the region. Overflights have occurred daily over the past two weeks, thereby increasing in frequency and accompanied by provocative and threatening statements about the ability of the United States to immediately attack Venezuela, if ordered to do so by President Trump. A reciprocal military assistance treaty among countries of the region, which has never been applied in the past 70 years and which Venezuela denounced six years ago, is now being invoked as a legal excuse for invasion.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“The clandestine operations of political aggression - subsequently shamelessly acknowledged by officials of the Trump Government 4 have failed, but their arrogance does not allow them to admit their mistakes. Desperation makes for a poor adviser. President Trump, beleaguered by all the internal accusations against his Government, is awakening the demons of racism, internal conflict and international war. It is a flight forward, and we are now entering an even more dangerous phase that involves the militarization of politics towards Venezuela, with a plan that seeks an excuse for invasion in the very short term. The United States Southern Command, Mr.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“The economic blockade and colossal robbery bear the hallmarks of monstrous cruelty, unique to war crimes, by criminalizing the purchase of basic foodstuffs for the sustenance of more than 6 million families receiving vital assistance through special programmes run by our Government. We are here today to denounce the United States Government for trying to fabricate a famine in Venezuela to appropriate our natural resources and recolonize our nation. That is a crime against humanity. Economic terrorism was compounded by political aggression and the violation of Venezuelan sovereignty on the border with Colombia on 23 February. A coup d'etat was also funded and organized on 30 April, but it was thwarted by the swift action of Venezuelan State institutions.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“On other occasions, we have denounced before the Council, members of the most important organ in the world, who are responsible for maintaining international peace and security, the plan systematically implemented by President Trump's Government to suffocate our nation's economy with its coercive measures, which are in violation of the United Nations Charter and the human rights of our people by serving as a collective punishment against the civilian population, particularly the most vulnerable sectors, such as the elderly, women and children. We also denounce how extortion measures have the effect of stealing and plundering our national wealth by illegally appropriating refineries, gold currency and other financial instruments, amounting to more than $30 billion, which are essential for meeting the basic needs of our people.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“Today we have come to demand that the Security Council act immediately to prevent the disaster of imminent military action against Venezuela, already announced by one of its permanent members, the Government of the United States, in complete violation of its responsibilities within the Council and of its obligations under the Charter of the United Nations and international law.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“Mr. Moncada (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): Armed conflicts are one of the basest acts of the human condition. Their extreme brutality and degradation affect first and foremost the innocent who do not carry weapons, that is to say, the civilian population, who are victims of the cruelty of war. It is therefore inevitably the elderly, women and children, innocent social groups in conflicts, who suffer the most from violence. Armed conflicts are among the worst tragedies that can befall a nation and any act used as a justification for the narrative of violence must be denounced and condemned.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“Finally, we reiterate our calls on the international community to act collectively and responsibly to defend international law and to step up all necessary efforts in support of the Palestinian cause, with the ultimate objective of ending this historic and grievous injustice. We reaffirm our commitment to promoting a just, lasting, comprehensive and peaceful solution to the question of Palestine in all its aspects, including the suffering of Palestinian refugees. We also reaffirm our support for the heroic Palestinian people in their struggle to achieve justice and realize their inalienable rights and legitimate national aspirations, including the right to self-determination, freedom and independence in their State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital.”
2019-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8583 (2019) · source
“We also reiterate our condemnation of the arbitrary and unilateral declaration by the United States on recognizing the Golan Heights as part of Israel, and renew our call on the Security Council to also condemn this act of provocation. Regarding Lebanon, the Movement's member States reaffirm the need for Israel to withdraw from all Lebanese territories - including the areas of the Shaba'a farmlands, the Kfar Shuba hills and the Lebanese part of the village of Al-Ghajar - behind the Blue Line. We urge Israel to cease its persistent and serious violations of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon, in accordance with the relevant international resolutions and resolution 1701 (2006) in particular.”
2019-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8583 (2019) · source
“With regard to the situation in the occupied Syrian Golan, the Movement reaffirms that all measures and actions that have been or may be taken by Israel, the occupying Power, such as the illegal decision of December 14 1981, seeking to modify the legal status, physical nature and demographic composition of the occupied Syrian Golan and its institutional structure, as well as all of Israel's measures to apply its own jurisdiction and administration in this area, are null and void, lack validity and of no legal effect. Therefore, we once again demand that Israel comply with resolution 497 (1981) and withdraw completely from the occupied Syrian Golan along the borders of 4 June 1967, in compliance with resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973).”
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