The Chancellor of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Félix Plasencia, through a message published on his account on the Twitter social network @PlascenciaFelix a statement in which Venezuela expresses its strong rejection of the false accusations of the Secretary of State of the States United, for including the country in its list of main drug producing or transit nations.
The Official Statement states that the inclusion of Venezuela in that list “violates fundamental principles of Public International Law, such as mutual sovereign respect, political independence, legal equality, non-intervention in internal affairs and a fundamental principle of legal relations and international ethics: good faith”.
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“#Venezuela vigorously rejects false accusations from the US http://mppre.gob.ve/comunicado/venezuela-rechaza-estados-unidos-drogas/ via @CancilleriaVE”
He also expresses that it is unusual that Colombia, the leading global producer of cocaine, “is its main partner and errand boy in world geopolitics”.
He points out as a questionable fact that the United States, “whose banking system executes a false policy of controlling money laundering from drug production and trafficking,” tries to teach the international community lessons.
Following, the full text of the Communiqué:
“The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela vigorously rejects the void and illegitimate practice by the United States of North America (USA) of pretending to establish itself as a supranational police force for sovereign and independent states, reflected in this Memorandum on the main producing countries of illicit drugs or transit of important drugs for fiscal year 2022, published on September 15 this year.
This fact violates fundamental principles of Public International Law, such as sovereign mutual respect, political independence, legal equality, non-intervention in internal affairs and a fundamental principle of international legal and ethical relations: good faith, by which The United States government persists in its inadequate intention to play the world’s anti-drug gendarme as long as its balance of payments is based on the largest money laundering center – from drugs – on the planet.
It is unusual, paradoxically, that its main partner and errand in world geopolitics, the government of the Republic of Colombia, is the first global producer of cocaine, today being a large crop diffused throughout its entire geography to perpetuate itself as the main world producer of cocaine.
Likewise, it is questionable that the country that is fighting for global financial hegemony, whose banking system executes a false policy of control of money laundering from drug production and trafficking, tries to give lessons to the international community in ignorance of sovereignty and jurisdiction of the States.
It is worth remembering that Venezuela strictly complies with the provisions of the international control conventions for psychotropic substances and narcotics. Our country is recognized by the United Nations (UN) as a country free of illicit crops, thanks to the permanent work of the security forces, preventive policies and the willingness to cooperate coordinated, multidisciplinary and without politicization, on the principles sovereignty and multilateralism.
At a time when Venezuela deepens the national political dialogue, there is no shortage of aggressions that seek to distract the sustained march towards peace and democratic stability, while countries allied to the United States, such as Colombia, have proven participation in the crime of drug trafficking, cynically they continue to be protected and made up in their criminal actions by the White House.
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela condemns the politicization of this issue and urges the governments of the world to give an ethical and responsible treatment to it, avoiding, at all costs, its instrumentalization to favor extraterritorial control operations and interventionism in sovereign third States.”
Caracas, September 15, 2021
