..Venezuela ambassador to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, delivered a scathing speech against America at an emergency UN session amid invasion threats by President Donald Trump.
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Mr. President,
one of the countries sitting at this
table has publicly stated that it wants
to annex our country.
On the 16th of December, its president
demanded
that we immediately hand over our land,
our oil,
and our minerals because they supposedly
belong to them. He said that if we did
not comply with his ultimatum,
he would unleash the fury of the
greatest navy in history
on our country. We, Mr. President, we
are in the presence of a power that acts
outside of international law, demanding
that Venezuelans
vacate
our country and hand it over. Hand over
our Orinino River, our Lake Lake Marbo,
our Margarita Island, our beaches,
rivers, plains, and mountains.
Otherwise, he will carry out an armed
attack which he has he has been
announcing for weeks.
This is the greatest extortion known in
our history.
A gigantic crime of aggression in
progress
beyond all rational parameters, all
legal logic, all historical precedent.
But it's not just about Venezuela.
The ambition is continental.
The US government has expressed this in
its national security strategy which
states that the future of the continent
belongs to them with the enactment of
the Monroe Doctrine in the 21st century
now aggravated by the Trump corollary.
Our liberate liberator, Simon Bolivar,
warned of this more than 200 years ago
when he said, and I quote, that the
United States seemed to be destined by
providence to plague Latin America with
misery in the name of liberty. End of
quote.
We want to alert the world. Venezuela is
only the first target of a larger plan.
The US government
wants us to be divided so it can conquer
us piece by piece. The United States,
which was an an indispensable country in
the construction of the United Nations
and in the drafting of its founding
charter, has today
become
an actor that seeks to impose itself on
the fundamental rights of all states in
the Western Hemisphere,
even at the cost of destroying the UN.
We have requested this meeting aware
that the US government will not allow
this body to adopt a decision that would
put a stop to its sinister plan. The
world should know that last November,
the US government was the only one that
prevented an agreement in this security
council
to condemn attacks against civilians on
the high seas and to call for don dant
dialogue and diplomacy.
The US government is preventing the
security council from fulfilling its
mandate. If in 1945 that country was a
force for good,
today it has become a
a state that threatens international
uh law and peace and security. The world
must know that the threat is not
Venezuela. The threat is the current US
government.
Mr. President, the murders in the
Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean
carried out by the US government of the
last few months
are the first evidence of its plan to
impose its power in the region
in flagrant violation of international
law and human rights. There have been
more than 29 attacks resulting in more
than 101 victims.
non-combatant civilians in the absence
of armed conflict
who are coldly murdered
violating their right to the presumption
of innocence and due process.
Let it be clear once and for all
that there is no war in the Caribbean.
There is no international armed
conflict,
nor is there a non- international one.
which is why it is absurd for the US
government to seek to justify its
actions by applying the rules of war.
The invocation of article 51 of the
United Nations Charter to explain
terrorism against civilians
masked by the argument of self-defense
is a perverse distortion of the law
attempting to turn small unarmed boats
in the Caribbean thousands of kilometers
from the United States into alleged
perpetrators of an armed attack with
weapons of mass destruction.
These are extrajudicial executions,
willful killings committed by military
force against unarmed civilians.
We stated that before the security
council on the 10th of October.
Today it is absolutely clear that the US
government is not only violating
international law but also its own
domestic legislation. Today when there
are four times as many victims, they do
not dare to show the recorded evidence
of the killings
because their cruelty would provoke
worldwide revulsion.
Despite this, today with more than 100
victims, the killer who roams the
Caribbean claims that there is no end in
sight to their crimes against humanity.
Mr. president.
On 16th of December, President Donald
Trump publicly stated the following, and
I quote, "Today,
I'm ordering a total and complete
blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers
going in and out of Venezuela." End of
quote.
This is a confession of a crime,
specifically a crime of aggression with
which the president of the United States
intends to turn back the clock of
history 200 years to impose a colony on
Venezuela.
On 10th of December, meanwhile, US
military units violently assaulted
a vessel engaged in lawful international
trade in international waters in the
Caribbean. They subdued and kidnapped
the entire crew and illegally seized the
cargo of Venezuelan oil,
which was part of a legitimate and
regular commercial operation.
It was a robbery carried out by military
force which sets an extremely serious
precedent for the safety of navigation
and international trade.
The illegal use of state force to carry
out theft on the high seas is worse than
piracy. worse than piracy. Since in this
case, it is not only a matter of
stealing commercial vessels,
which is evidence of intentionality and
violating their rights to navigate in
international waters, but also of the de
facto annexation
of the entire Caribbean Sea by a naval
power.
In doing so,
in addition to violating Venezuela's in
inalienable right to trade legally with
the world,
it seeks to deny all countries the right
to trade with Venezuela.
Just three days ago on 20th of December,
a second act of the same nature took
place when another vessel carrying
Venezuelan oil was similarly seized by
the US military forces in international
waters in the Caribbean.
The cargo was stolen and the crew has
been kidnapped.
Immediately afterwards, Secretary of War
Pete Hixath indicated that such criminal
operations would continue while
President Trump declared that he would
keep the stolen cargo.
So, I'd like to ask, what right does the
United States government has to
appropriate to date almost 4 million
barrels of Venezuelan oil?
This alleged naval blockade is
essentially a military act
aimed at laying siege to the Venezuelan
nation,
degrading its economic and military
apparatus,
weakening its social and political
cohesion
and causing internal chaos to facilitate
aggression by external forces. That is,
it's an armed attack.
This has been stated by President Trump
himself, who is also violating the right
to existence of the entire Venezuelan
people, by deliberately denying them the
essential means for their subsistence.
Mr. President, on the 29th of November,
President Trump stated, and I quote, "To
all airlines pilots,
uh, please consider the airspace over
and around Venezuela is completely
closed." end of quote. This statement
was put into practice among other things
by an electronic warfare campaign
by US military forces in the region
which has been blinding the navigation
instruments of all civilian aircraft
transiting Venezuelan airspace to to
provoke a security incident.
Electronic interference in the Caribbean
has nearly caused at least two tragedies
involving US civilian aircraft that were
seconds away
from colliding with aircrafts belonging
aircraft belonging to their own
country's air force.
It should be noted that the civilian
aircraft involved took out took off from
Kurasau and Aruba both bound for US
territory proving that the danger
created by that country's military
forces
against its own citizens also affects
the airspace of other nations such as
the Netherlands and
there can be no doubt the US government
poses a threat to the entire region
which has been declared a zone of peace
since 2014.
As we warned this body on the 9th of
October, this type of behavior combined
with a series of unreported military
incursions into into Venezuela's flight
information region, un n unnotified,
unreported, is an attempt to provoke a
direct confrontation. In other words, to
fabricate a provocation that would allow
article 51 of the United Nations to be
falsely invoked.
The US government, the aggressor,
requires its propaganda apparatus to
present it to the world as a country
under attack to initiate an armed
conflict.
We denounce this dangerous manipulation
and assure the world that we will not
lose our composure in we will not lose
our composure in defending the peace of
our nation. Let us repeat the threat is
not Venezuela.
The threat is the US government.
This set of proven facts cannot be
viewed in isolation.
They must be understood as a cumulative
process of aggression.
that increases the destructive impact on
the Venezuelan nation. They constitute
illegal acts of direct use of armed
force against a nation that is at
perfect peace and has no conflict
whatsoever with the United States.
Unfortunately, the Security Council
could miss an opportunity to stop the
criminal plans of the US government due
to the abusive way in which the US
government exercises its power in this
body. Today,
the red line has been crossed and the US
government bears international
responsibility for the ongoing
aggressions. Mr. prison.
We are facing a massive violation of the
entire international legal architecture.
It is a grotesque offense that violates
every civilizational norm. Today, the US
government is imposing chaos and
destruction on international relations
just as the evil actors who caused the
second world war did.
The perempter norms of international law
use kogans which are universally
accepted and form a part of human
humanity's cultural heritage are being
ignored by the US government including
the prohibition of aggression, the
prohibition of crimes against humanity
and the right to self-determination.
Article two of the charter of the United
Nations establishes guiding principles
for international relations that the US
government is flagrantly violating.
We refer to the principle of legal
equality of states as well as the
principle of refraining from the use of
or the threat of the use of force
against the territorial integrity and
political independence of states.
The universal declaration of human
rights establishes that every individual
has a right to liberty and security of a
person. Similarly, the international
covenant on civil and political rights
to which the United States is a party
establishes life as is as an inherent
right of every person which no one may
be arbitrarily deprived of. This central
instrument
also prohibits the deprivation of the
means of subsistence of entire peoples.
The Geneva Convention of the High Seas
to which the United States is also a
party establishes not only the right to
freedom of navigation but also that no
state shall legitimately claim
sovereignty over any part of the high
seas
as these are open to all nations.
The jurist prudence established by
international courts confirms in turn
that the principles of non-intervention
in the internal affairs of states
refraining from the use or the threat of
force and respect for sovereignty are
part of customary international law
as reflected in judgments dating from
1986 to the present.
General Assembly 1803
on the permanent sovereignty over
natural resources establishes that the
violation of such rights is contrary to
the spirit and principles enshrined in
the UN charter.
General Assembly Resolution 2625
establishes that a war of aggression
constitutes a crime against peace,
that it entails responsibility, and that
another state shall not acquire the
territory. Do it.
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