The UN’s stance also extends to threats to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Bolivarian Republic, and violations of international law and human rights, Foreign Minister Yvan Gil wrote on Telegram, on behalf of President Nicolas Maduro.

The head of Venezuelan diplomacy stated that, nevertheless, “the threat and attacks against a region declared a Zone of Peace continue.”

He emphasized that, for this reason, “we maintain our call to the entire United Nations system and multilateral organizations to use their mechanisms to defend the peace and sovereignty of all nations, a mandate entrusted to them by the peoples of the world.”

The United States government maintains its threat of military aggression against Caracas with the deployment of warships, aircraft, a nuclear submarine, and 10,000 troops near Venezuela, as well as attacks against vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific Oceans.

Reports from US officials put the number of small boats destroyed in those international maritime zones at around 18, with approximately 70 dead, without showing any evidence or proof that they were suspected drug traffickers.

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