During the plenary session of the Conference on Disarmament, the South American nation’s permanent representative to the UN, Alexander Yanez, condemned the presence of a US fast-attack nuclear submarine with 4,000 military personnel, combat aircraft, and destroyers in waters near the Venezuelan coast, according to the Venezuelan News Agency.
Yanez described this incident as a violation of the United Nations Charter, which prohibits the threat of the use of force against the territorial integrity and political independence of a state.
He also refuted Washington government’s narrative linking Venezuela to drug trafficking to justify the military operation and asserted that his country is free of illicit crops, as stated in the official report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
“The true focus of the problem is in the Pacific, where 87 percent of drug trafficking occurs, but there is no military deployment or media exposure there,” he said.
The diplomat warned that the White House’s true purpose is to provoke regime change in Venezuela and then seize one of the world’s largest oil reserves.
In this regard, he demanded the immediate withdrawal of US military forces from the region and that the United States provide guarantees that it will not use nuclear weapons or threaten to use them.
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