Nicolás Maduro regime thanked Argentina for withdrawing Hague trial for crimes against humanity in Venezuela

Nicolás Maduro’s regime on Thursday thanked the government of Alberto Fernández for withdrawing the international complaint for human rights violations against Venezuela.

These public thanks from Tarek William Saab, Venezuela’s Attorney General, came hours after the Argentine government withdrew the charge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for alleged crimes against humanity committed by the Chavist leaders.

“It should be noted that Argentina withdrew from this Lima Group complaint saying that this action carried out did not make sense or did not hold in the past by other officials of the Argentine state, ”noted the Attorney General through a televised message.

The Maduro official stressed that this withdrawal of the Fernández government’s request “has an important symbolic value” this must be seen “very carefully”.

“They are doing it for a reason, because the issue of human rights cannot be politically oriented,” said a longtime human rights activist, “he said.

Diplomatic sources confirmed this Thursday, after the news was published on the site Russia today, that the Argentine government withdrew the case and the accusation against Venezuela before the ICC on March 25, the day after the officialization of his departure from the Lima Group.

At the time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs considered that it was withdrawing from this group because it understood that its actions had “led to nothing”, after having qualified this body as an “instrument” of the former president of the United States, Donald Trump and OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro, and as such the complaint lodged in The Hague.

The day after this announcement, the Argentine Embassy in the Netherlands, headed by diplomat Mario Oyarzabal, sent a letter to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda. There he asked for the withdrawal of all measures taken by Argentina against Venezuela.

“The Government of the Argentine Republic withdraws from the said referral as well as from any presentation made in this context, including Note OI 48/2019 of September 30, 2019 linked to a report prepared by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights. ‘man from Argentina,’ refers to the letter published by RT.

From the chancellery they said Bugle They wanted to add that in the text of the withdrawal of the Argentine dossier on Venezuela from The Hague, it was stated that Argentina had stressed that its decision had been taken “ without prejudice to the actions carried out by the Office of the Prosecutor in relation to the situation in Venezuela as established in the Rome Statute, with respect for judicial independence “.

The complaint was accompanied by President Mauricio Macri, who, along with other leaders, made a request to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate possible crimes committed in Venezuela. He did so with Canada, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, and Peru, as well as with OAS Secretary General Almagro.

In recent days, President Alberto Fernández has made curious statements which, according to the Venezuelan opposition, contrast with the events experienced in the Venezuelan country and which demonstrate the position finally known on Wednesday, that of withdrawing complaints.

Fernández said the “human rights problem” in Venezuela “was disappearing”, which led to the rejection of opposition leader Juan Guaidó de Caracas and his representative in Argentina, Elisa Trotta Gamus.

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