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MADRID, December 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The government of Venezuela denounced this Wednesday before the United Nations Security Council an “open and criminal aggression” by the United States, after the president of that country, Donald Trump, ordered the blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers that enter and leave the Venezuelan coast, and requested from this body an “urgent” meeting to address what he described as a “plan of colonialism” and “a gigantic act of extortion”.
“The United States is imposing chaos and destruction in international relations in the same way as the evil actors who provoked World War II did. The Security Council, responsible for guaranteeing the maintenance of international peace and security, must avoid this,” he said in a letter signed by the Venezuelan representative to the UN, Samuel Moncada, and addressed to the secretary general of the multilateral organization, António Guterres.
In this sense, he requested the convening, “urgently”, of a meeting of the group of 15 countries, of which the United States is a part, to discuss “American aggression against Venezuela” and “adopt the necessary measures to restore international legality”.
“If this Council ignores this crime of aggression (…), it would accept the entire collective security system of the United Nations, the construction of which has cost the people so much money over the last 80 years,” he argued in a letter published by Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil on Telegram.
The ambassador recalled the seizure, a little over a week ago, of an oil tanker “whose crew members were kidnapped and are still missing”, as well as the “alleged total closure of Venezuelan airspace” ordered at the end of November, but he warned that “today we are faced with a transgression of much greater magnitude” after denouncing a blockade “imposed unilaterally and in violation of international legality”.
On the other hand, he stressed that “in the history of Venezuela, never has the head of state and/or government of a foreign power had the troubled idea that the Venezuelan national territory, including its oil deposits and other property, belonged to him.”
“The delirium increases with the ultimatum that if Venezuela does not submit to his will, our nation will then be attacked by its military forces. The President of the United States is violating with impunity and in front of the whole world our national sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of Venezuela,” he reiterated.
In the same spirit, he echoed the White House’s comments regarding its ownership of the Venezuelan oil industry and “demanding its return.” “This means the US government is laying claim to the world’s largest oil reserve, in what would be one of the greatest acts of plunder in human history,” he added of a statement he called “absurd.”
“What this confirms is that there is no limit to the United States’ addiction to oil and that all the excuses used in recent weeks against our country were just a smokescreen,” he said, referring to the fight against drug trafficking, an argument used by Washington to justify its hostilities, notably the attacks on ships in the waters of the Caribbean and the Pacific which killed more than 90 people.
“It is therefore a clear plan, typical of colonialism, which has no place in the 21st century. It is a gigantic act of extortion against a sovereign state, a grotesque crime that violates all civilizational norms and, ultimately, an admission of a crime of aggression on a large scale,” he concluded.
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