Samuel Moncada, Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations, denounced this Tuesday before the Security Council the “admission of a crime of aggression” by the United States. Moncada asserted that this crime includes a declared naval blockade, the theft of 4 million barrels of Venezuelan oil, and electronic warfare in Venezuelan airspace, characterizing them as violations of international law and threats to regional and continental peace.
During the session entitled “Threats to International Peace and Security,” the Venezuelan diplomat stated that on December 16, President Donald Trump publicly declared: “Today I am ordering a total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela.” Moncada characterized this declaration as an admission of a “crime of aggression,” with which the US president intends to “turn back the clock of history 200 years to impose a colony on Venezuela.”
The ambassador detailed how on December 10, US military units violently attacked a legitimate merchant vessel in international waters of the Caribbean, subdued and kidnapped its crew, and illegally seized a cargo of Venezuelan oil. Moncada described this act as a “robbery carried out by military force,” which sets an “extremely serious precedent for the security of navigation and international trade,” being “worse than piracy.”
Likewise, on December 20, a second incident of the same nature took place, when another vessel transporting Venezuelan oil was seized by US military forces in international waters of the Caribbean. The cargo was stolen and the crew kidnapped.
Subsequently, Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of War, indicated that these types of criminal operations would continue, and President Trump declared that he would keep the stolen cargo. Moncada questioned the right of the U.S. government to “seize 4 million barrels of Venezuelan oil.”
The ambassador stated that this “alleged naval blockade” is a military act aimed at establishing a siege against the Venezuelan nation, degrading its economic and military apparatus, weakening its social and political cohesion, and “provoking internal chaos in order to facilitate aggression by external forces, that is, an armed attack.” Moncada stated that President Trump himself is violating the right to existence of the entire Venezuelan people, “deliberately denying them the essential means for their subsistence.”
Moncada also denounced that on November 29, President Trump declared that “all airlines should consider the airspace over and around Venezuela as completely closed.” According to the ambassador, this declaration was implemented in practice through an electronic warfare campaign by U.S. military forces in the region. These forces have been dedicated to jamming the navigation instruments of all civilian aircraft transiting Venezuelan airspace, “in order to provoke a security incident.”
The Venezuelan diplomat mentioned that electronic interference in the Caribbean has nearly caused at least two tragedies involving U.S. civilian aircraft that came within seconds of colliding with U.S. Air Force aircraft. Furthermore, the danger posed by U.S. military forces to their own citizens also affects the airspace of other nations, such as the Netherlands Antilles.
Moncada concluded that “there can be no doubt” that the United States government represents a threat to the entire region, which has been declared a zone of peace since 2014.
Moncada warned that these types of actions, which include unannounced military incursions into Venezuela’s flight information region, are an attempt to generate a “direct confrontation,” that is, “to fabricate a provocation that allows them to falsely invoke Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations.” The ambassador emphasized that the United States government, “the aggressor, requires its propaganda machine to present it to the world as the victim of aggression in order to initiate an armed conflict.”
Ambassador Moncada alerted the world that Venezuela is only the “first target of a larger plan” that seeks to divide and conquer the continent “piece by piece,” a continental ambition expressed in Washington’s national security strategy with the application of the Monroe Doctrine in the 21st century, now exacerbated by the “Trump Corollary.”
Finally, he denounced this “dangerous manipulation” and assured the world that Venezuela “will not lose its composure in defending the peace of our nation.” “The threat is not Venezuela, the threat is the United States government,” Moncada reiterated, emphasizing that these proven facts are a “cumulative process of aggression that increases the destructive impact on the Venezuelan nation.”
IMAGE CREDIT: Ambassador Samuel Moncada stated that Donald Trump’s threat of a blockade is an admission of a crime “with which the President of the United States intends to turn back the clock of history 200 years to impose a colony on Venezuela.” Photo: United Nations
[ SOURCE: teleSUR ]
