The United Nations Security Council has scheduled an emergency meeting for Tuesday, December 23, at the request of Venezuela, to address the “open and criminal aggression of US imperialism” following the seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker by the Donald Trump administration.
Laura Miklic, spokesperson for the Permanent Mission to the UN of Slovenia—the country holding the rotating presidency of the Council during December—told the media that a meeting on Venezuela is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.
Last Tuesday, Trump announced a “total blockade” against sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, escalating the aggression against the South American nation in an attempt to seize its natural resources.
The Permanent Mission of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United Nations denounced in a statement that the Trump Administration has the “colonial ambition to seize the oil and resources that belong to the Venezuelan people.”
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil announced that he has requested an urgent meeting of the Security Council to “restore international law and uphold the Charter of the United Nations.”
The Mission’s statement indicates that “these actions flagrantly violate the Charter of the United Nations, constitute a crime of aggression, and seek to subjugate by force a sovereign nation that will never surrender.”
The denunciation comes in response to a series of measures adopted by the US administration, including the order issued by Trump on his social media platform, Truth Social, in which he announced a “total and complete blockade of all authorized oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela.”
In his message, the US president accused the Venezuelan government of “asset theft,” “terrorism,” “drug trafficking,” and “human trafficking,” implying that Venezuela’s resources belong to the United States and must be returned.
The United States announced its designation as a “foreign terrorist organization” and asserted that “Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest armada ever assembled in South American history,” warning of “an upheaval unlike anything they have ever seen.”
The Venezuelan delegation to the UN emphasized that “today the United States makes no secret of its ambition: it wants to seize the world’s largest oil reserves,” alluding to the certified crude oil reserves in the South American country. It also reaffirmed that “Venezuela remains firm, united, and standing strong, defending its independence, its dignity, and its inalienable right to determine its own destiny.”
IMAGE CREDIT: The Venezuelan government requested the urgent meeting of the Security Council so that “international law is restored, and the Charter of the United Nations prevails.” PHOTO: UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION
[ SOURCE: teleSUR ]
