April 7, 2016
Venezuela’s foreign minister Delcy Rodriguez posted on her Twitter user a letter for United States Secretary of State John Kerry, requesting him to treat Venezuela with respect, according to the principles and purposes of the United Nations Charter.
The letter, dated March 24, 2016, is in response to Kerry’s letter giving answer to the invitation by Venezuela to attend the open debate on “The Respect to the Principles and Purposes of the Charter of the UN as Key Elements for the Maintenance of International Peace and Security,” held on 15 February.
However, Rodriguez lamented that despite these efforts, there persists what she called open or surreptitious de facto powers, which by military, financial, psychological actions, detrimental to identity, promote hatred and impede governance of popularly elected governments.
Rodriguez reiterated to the US government that if the sovereign equality of States “was respected by those who have historically used excessive force and threats, extraterritorial or unilateral coercive measures against innocent and sovereign peoples, conflict, violence and war would not have tormented countries as diverse as Vietnam, Cuba, Allende’s Chile, now passing through Iraq, Libya and Syria, among many other examples of the painful recent history of humanity.”
The minister stressed that Venezuela has been one of the victims of these attacks “by the mere fact that it decided to travel on the broad road of participatory Bolivarian democracy and exercise the inalienable right to build its own political and social model, based on inclusion, fighting poverty, promoting education and health for all and the broad civil and political rights enshrined in our Constitution.”
She said that despite terrorist actions, media campaigns of disinformation and economic sabotage against Venezuela, “yet we have managed to keep the peace of the Republic and civil and political rights of our citizens.”
The minister also mentioned the renewal of the US Government decree against Venezuela, which declares the South American nation an “unusual and extraordinary” threat to the United States. In this regard, she reiterated that the extension of the Executive Order “violates the UN Charter and disregards the clamor of the Venezuelan people and the heads of state of Latin America and other regions of the world that have explicitly demanded to repeal the aberrant statement that considers Venezuela a threat to the United States.”
She regretted that the US government does not accept another form of relationship between nations “rather than from a supremacy which our Liberator Simon Bolivar firmly rejected almost 200 years ago.”
Furthermore, foreign minister reiterated Venezuela’s rejection of terrorism and actions of extreme violence, including wars and stressed that “the only way to rescue peace and security is to prevent threats; interference in the affairs of other nations; territorial, economic, or information blocks, and any form of intervention, which unfortunately have only served to generate the unfortunate number of millions of expatriates, attacked in their hopes, their dignity, and their right to peace and development.”
Rodriguez respectfully recommended to Kerry to address the internal affairs of the United States in order to meet the legitimate demands of its people and not the interests of large corporations.
Source: Venezuelan News Agency (AVN)