The Minister of People’s Power for Foreign Relations, Jorge Arreaza, reported this Wednesday that the special commission of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council determined that hundreds of Venezuelan cancer patients could die “from being trapped in the excessively strict application of US sanctions directed at Venezuela”.
In a message published on his account on the social network twiter @jaarreaza, the Chancellor of the Republic detailed that six rapporteurs and experts from the United Nations published a press release in which they denounced the United States for directly affecting “the fundamental rights of Venezuelans by means of illegal anions that prevent treatment of patients with cancer”.
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“Attention! 6 United Nations Rapporteurs and Experts publish a Press Release denouncing the United States for directly affecting the fundamental rights of Venezuelans, through illegal sanctions that prevent treatment of cancer patients.
#SanctionsAreACrime”
The writing states that this situation has been exposed to the United States government by the aforementioned commission, an instance that has demanded, both the United States government and third countries and other entities “assume full responsibility for the effect that their actions have on the fundamental rights to life and health of all people throughout the world”.
It is recalled in the press communiqué that “there are about 190 cancer patients on the waiting list for treatment abroad, and about 14 children, including three young children, have died between 2017 and 2020 waiting to receive treatment”.
“Targeting PDVSA as a way to control Venezuela’s political agenda has had devastating consequences for hundreds of people in treatment for transplant rejection, both in Venezuela and abroad,” also indicates the statement.
