– Europe Press/Contact/Juan Carlos Hernandez
Madrid, November 29 (European Press) –
On Saturday, Venezuela condemned the “colonial threat” posed by US President Donald Trump, who announced the “closure” of the Latin American country’s airspace, which represents a new North American “aggression,” according to what Caracas reported.
The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said in a statement: “The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela strongly rejects the public message published today by the President of the United States on social networks, in which he intends to apply the illegal jurisdiction of the United States in Venezuela extraterritorially through an extraordinary attempt to give orders and threaten the sovereignty of the national airspace, territorial integrity, aviation security and the full sovereignty of the Venezuelan state.”
Caracas stressed that these statements represent a “hostile, unilateral and arbitrary act” that contradicts the principles of international law within the “policy of permanent aggression” with “colonial claims on Latin America and the Caribbean.”
The Government of Venezuela considers these statements to constitute an “explicit threat to use force,” which is “clearly and unambiguously” prohibited in Article 2.4 of the UN Charter. Moreover, this “attempt to intimidate” violates Article 1 of this Charter, which “enshrines a basic principle in the maintenance of international peace and security.”
It therefore requests “respect” for its airspace and warns that it “will not accept orders, threats or interference” from “any foreign power.” He warned that “no authority outside Venezuelan institutions has the ability to interfere, prevent or impose conditions on the use of national airspace.”
Furthermore, the resolution calls on other countries, the United Nations and other multilateral organizations to “firmly reject” this “aggressive and immoral act” that “amounts to a threat to our sovereignty and security.” He stressed that “Venezuela will know how to respond with dignity, legitimacy and with all the force granted by international law and the anti-imperialist spirit of our people.”
The Ministry also stressed that with this measure, the United States “unilaterally” suspended the flights of Venezuelan migrants to their homeland, recalling that so far 75 flights have been carried out under the Vuelta a la Patria plan with 13,956 migrants.
Caracas thus responds to the message published by Trump on Saturday in which Trump announced that the airspace “over” and around Venezuela had been completely “closed” in another step towards a possible ground invasion of the country in the same week in which the North American president clearly spoke of his intention to enter Venezuelan territory to begin arresting drug traffickers, taking into account in particular the accumulation of his military personnel around the region.
The US President announced on his platform, “Truth Social,” “To all airlines, pilots, drug traffickers, and human traffickers: We ask you to take into account that the airspace over Venezuela and its surrounding areas will remain completely closed.”