In a joint statement with unprecedented support at the 36th session of the UN Human Rights Council, the National Constituent Assembly and President Nicolás Maduro Moros were strongly supported.
The Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the UN-Geneva, Ambassador Jorge Valero, reported that 60 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas signed the document supporting President Maduro’s repeated call for political dialogue among all national sectors to preserve the peace and ensure the stability of democratic institutions.
During his address to the Human Rights Council, Valero stressed that the attempts of a few countries headed by the US Government to politicize this issue in that forum have been voided.
He added that: “The imperial pretensions of disturbing the good functioning of our participatory and protagonist democracy have been shipwrecked.”
Support to the Constituent Assembly:
“With the declaration adopted, the world reaffirms the sovereign right of the countries to organize their electoral processes, including the election of Constituent National Assemblies”, he said.
“The signatories of the Declaration recognize that the constituent process promotes an inclusive dialogue, political and political recognition, and seeks national unity, through cooperation among the public powers, as guarantees of the full functioning of the democratic State”.
“And thanks to the National Constituent Assembly – elected through the universal, direct and secret vote of millions of Venezuelans – peace reigns in Venezuela”, he said.
The world in solidarity with Venezuela:
Ambassador Valero indicated that the Declaration was unanimously supported by the Arab League; by dozens of developing countries, and the permanent member countries of the UN Security Council: China and Russia.
“Developing countries with a large regional and global presence, such as India, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Egypt, Algeria, Vietnam, Belarus, Nigeria and Palestine, also joined in this initiative.”
He said that the countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas, including Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Suriname, as well as El Salvador, reaffirmed their support for the Bolivarian process.
“On behalf of the Bolivarian Government, I thank all those countries that have signed the Joint Declaration in favor of Venezuela. It has given an overwhelming and categorical message to the Bolivarian people and to its democratic Government”, said Valero.
“Today the Bolivarian Government’s determination to guarantee full observance of human rights has been recognized,” he added.
Rejection of coercive measures:
Ambassador Valero explained that the Declaration rejects the unilateral coercive foreign measures imposed on Venezuela, “Which constitute a clear violation of international law, and an unacceptable interventionist practice to affect our people and force a change of government.”
He remarked that the Declaration warned that: “Any foreign military intervention would undermine the successful model of human rights that has been reaching Venezuela in recent years”.
Valero said that the document “Calls to respect the sovereignty of Venezuela, in accordance with the universal principle of non-interference in internal affairs, enshrined in the Charter of the UN”.
The Bolivarian spokesman in Geneva stressed the fact that this Declaration “Expresses that it is only the Venezuelan people that have the responsibility to determine their future, and calls for respect for their democratic will, in the terms set forth in our Constitution”.
Ambassador Valero concluded his speech by stating that: “Today the truth and dignity of sovereign nations has triumphed. The Homeland of Simón Bolívar and Hugo Chávez has triumphed. ”
