Duque will seek alliances to reaffirm allegations about Venezuela before the ICC

Washington, DC, June 29 (EFE) .- The elected President of Colombia, Ivan Duque, explained today that he will seek alliances with other leaders of the world. 39 State to reaffirm the denunciations of human rights violations in Venezuela presented to the International Criminal Court (ICC), based in The Hague

Duque, Democratic Center Uribe (right), filed a complaint with the ICC in July 2017, while he was a senator, against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro; During the election campaign in Colombia, he pledged to sue the Caribbean country in court if he could win the elections, as finally arrived on June 17.

"First, I have already denounced Nicolás Maduro, and the Secretary General of the OAS (Luis Almagro) has already acknowledged this denunciation and also supported this denunciation with the report that & # 39; She was presenting, and now what we have been looking for is several heads of state for the reaffirmation of these denunciations. "[traduction]

The ICC undertook a preliminary examination of Venezuela which could lead to the opening of an official investigation.

Mr. Duque made these statements after the incident, meeting today with the Secretary General of the Organization of the United Nations. American states (OAS), Luis Almagro, who last year ordered a group of experts to prepare a report to determine whether the Venezuelan government was responsible for crimes against humanity 19659003] This document, presented last May, concluded that there was a "reasonable basis" to consider that eleven individuals, led by Maduro, had committed crimes against humanity and, therefore, could be reported to the ICC.

Almagro sent the information of this report individually to this court, since the OAS does not have the capacity of an institution to present a case in court.

N However, all OAS member states that have signed the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the ICC, have the power to denounce Venezuela.

Of the 34 active member countries of the OAS, 28 (including Venezuela) During the 16 years of the ICC's life, no state in the world has denounced another, it would be historic for any country, such as Colombia, to do so with Venezuela

. the power on August 7 for the presidential term 2018-2022.