The Chancellor of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, demanded the United States Department of State to comply with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and to protect the Venezuelan diplomatic premises in Washington, which served as the Embassy until the moment of the rupture of Relations between the two countries.
As this international agreement establishes in Article 45, in the event of the rupture of diplomatic relations between two States, or if a mission is definitively or temporarily terminated, the receiving State will be obliged to respect and protect, even in the case of an armed conflict, the premises of the mission as well as its assets and archives.
Likewise, it provides that the sending State may entrust the custody of the premises of the mission, as well as its assets and files, to a third State acceptable to the receiving State; and the sending State may entrust the protection of its interests and the interests of its nationals to a third State acceptable to the receiving State.
On the basis of these precepts, the Venezuelan diplomat also demanded the US administration to avoid the aggressions against a group of US citizens who remain in the Venezuelan diplomatic headquarters authorized by the government of President Nicolás Maduro, preventing its illegal occupation by a group of followers of the self-proclaimed Juan Guaidó:
«Our acknowledgement of the dignity and firmness of the Collective protecting our former Embassy in the US. They are besieged, assaulted, blocked and even had their electricity cut off. Does it sound familiar to you? It is the same illegal strategy of imperialism against the Venezuelan people», posted Chancellor Arreaza on his Twitter account @jaarreaza, after the violence that occurred outside the Venezuelan diplomatic post in Washington on Wednesday night.
For several days, representatives of various US social movements have been besieged by a mob of Venezuelan opponents who intend to raid the Embassy, even in the presence of the police authorities of that nation.
The Secret Service of the United States, meanwhile, practiced on Wednesday the forced detention of Gerry Condon, president of the American association Veterans for Peace, who was recently in Caracas in solidarity with the Venezuelan Government, before the policies of the White House against the South American country.
The practices of the Venezuelan opponents in Washington emulate unequivocally the siege against the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba during the coup d’etat of April 2002 against the government of then President Hugo Chávez.
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