The European Council declared this Thursday “persona non grata” to the representative of Venezuela, Claudia Salerno, before the European Union (EU), in response to the Caracas decision to expel the bloc’s ambassador, Isabel Brilhante Pedroza.
This Thursday, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Jorge Arreaza, gave the ambassador of the European Union in the country a letter declaring her as persona non grata and gave a period of 72 hours to leave the country, after the European bloc recently imposed unilateral measures. to 19 officials.
“It’s really unacceptable. This interference is arrogant, it is arrogance,” said the Chancellor in statements from the Casa Amarilla (Yellow House, seat of the Venezuelan Chancellory), in Caracas, where he held a meeting with the diplomatic representative, following instructions issued by the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro.
Arreaza stressed that Venezuela made the decision to declare the EU ambassador as persona non grata, in accordance with the Vienna Convention, and is given a period of 72 hours to leave the national territory.
He explained that “the decision is due to the fact that there are already 55 (sanctioned officials), a decision that the EU calls sanctions as if they had some moral authority, which they do not have, nor is it legal.”
He rejected that these sanctions go against government officials, including opposition deputies and police chiefs.
