USA opposed to opening a dialogue with Venezuela | …

End-to-end positions on the Venezuelan crisis were discussed yesterday at the emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. While the United States urged more countries to endorse sanctions against Venezuelan government officials and increase pressure for Nicolás Maduro to be overthrown, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza called for the rejection of the threat and recourse to the force. against your country. At the end of this edition, no resolution was reached.

"Venezuelans need our solidarity and our help to be able to impose themselves in the face of a ruthless and violent regime, break out of democracy and start rebuilding their country," said US Special Envoy for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, on the Security Council. In his speech, Abrams asked other countries to join him and punish the people involved in the violence last weekend, in addition to demanding more humanitarian aid for the country.

In this sense, he insisted that the UN should not provide badistance to the people through the government because, he said, the Maduro Executive will steal some and divert the rest to strengthen his control of power. Abrams also voiced opposition to calls for dialogue between the government and the Venezuelan opposition, such as those repeated by UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

Abrams explained that his country had asked the Security Council to convene following Maduro's refusal to accept humanitarian aid and violent clashes on Saturday. According to the Washington envoy, the way out of the crisis is through elections he called free, fair and transparent, for which he asked the entire international community to work to put pressure on Maduro and him to leave power in a peaceful way.

Prior to the meeting, Abrams had expressed the hope that a resolution on Venezuela would be put to the vote this week. "I think we will have a resolution this week, which will undoubtedly require the admission of humanitarian aid to Venezuela and comments on the events of recent days," he said. In addition, the special envoy pointed out that Washington wanted the text calls for free elections in the Caribbean country.

For its part, Arreaza called on the Security Council to approve a resolution rejecting the threat and use of force against the country, in response to US actions. The Foreign Minister denounced the US's alleged preparations for a military intervention in Venezuela and called on the United Nations' highest decision-making body to take a stand so that this option is totally ruled out. The minister also insisted that the humanitarian operation promoted Saturday by the opposition with Washington's support was an aggression against national sovereignty. "There are countries where scandals are generated because they say another country is involved in their election campaigns." In Venezuela, the intervention of US governments has occurred since the Coming to power of the Bolivarian Revolution, "said Arreaza.

The representative of Russia also supported this position. "We call on states in the region, regardless of their political orientation, to support the United Nations Charter and to reject the use of force," said Russian Ambbadador to the UN Vasili Nebenzia. "We are trying to implement a military solution in Venezuela, which could have unpredictable consequences for the region and the world," he added.

Bolivia has been badociated with the rejection of military intervention and has also called for all humanitarian aid to be de-politicized and demilitarized. "Venezuela's situation calls for the attention of the Security Council Venezuela is not a threat to international peace and security, actions against Venezuela pose a threat to peace in the region ", said the ambbadador of Bolivia, Sacha Llorente. "My region and the world have suffered the tragic consequences when" all options are on the table, "he said.This same line followed the ambbadadors of China, Equatorial Guinea, South Africa, Cuba , among others.