Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
United Nations, January 3 – The Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, today urgently requested an emergency meeting to discuss acts of aggression perpetrated by the United States against the Bolivarian Republic.
In a letter sent to the Permanent Representative of Somalia to the United Nations and President of the Security Council, Abukar Dahir Osman, the Venezuelan diplomat denounced the U.S. armed aggression against his country, which he described as a matter "with serious implications for regional and international peace and security."
He stated that in the early hours of this Saturday, U.S. military forces carried out a series of "brutal, unjustified, and unilateral armed attacks" consisting of the bombardment of civilian and military locations in the city of Caracas, and in other cities in the states of Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira.
Moncada indicated that, additionally, "U.S. special forces are carrying out attacks in various points of the national territory with helicopters and aircraft."
He affirmed that this "flagrant act of aggression, premeditated, acknowledged, and publicized" by the United States government, blatantly violates the provisions of Article 2, Paragraph 4 of the UN Charter.
This stipulates that "All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations."
He denounced that the deadly and treacherous U.S. military attack is occurring against a country that is at complete peace.
The criminal and unjustified attack, he asserted, is unprecedented in more than 200 years of republican history, with the lamentable and repulsive exception of the attacks perpetrated by the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy against the Venezuelan coasts in 1902.
Venezuela, he assured, has never broken its peaceful international tradition, but the United States has confirmed, with "this despicable attack, its status as the greatest international aggressor in our region over the last two centuries."
Moncada stated that what began four months ago as a police fantasy now shows its true face as "a colonial war to destroy our republican form of government," freely decided by the people, in order to impose a puppet government that allows the looting of our natural resources.
He reaffirmed that the Bolivarian Republic reserves the inherent right to legitimate self-defense, under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, in order to protect its population, its sovereignty, and territorial integrity.
Furthermore, he condemned the United States aggression against the Venezuelan people and Government; demanded the cessation of armed attacks by Washington against Venezuela; and called for the establishment of pertinent measures to ensure the northern country is held accountable for the crimes of aggression committed against the country. (Text and photo: PL)
