This Friday, the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela categorically rejected the resolution approved by the Human Rights Council of the United Nations (UN), which renews “the mandate of the hostile and interfering monitoring mechanism against the country”, a document called “Facts Determination Mission”.
In a statement released this Friday, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela described as shameful the double standards, the selectivity and the politicized use of the mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, led by a minority group of States, which, as emphasized,”follow obediently the dictates of the Government of the United States”.
Following, the full text of the Communiqué:
“The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela categorically rejects the Resolution approved by the UN Human Rights Council, through which is renewed the mandate of the hostile and interfering monitoring mechanism against our country, called the “Facts Determination Mission”.
This Resolution is the result of the shameful double standards, the selectivity and the politicized use of the mechanisms of the Human Rights Council by a minority group of States, which obediently follow the dictates of the Government of the United States of America, in its obsessive interest in attacking Venezuelan democratic institutions.
Venezuela denounces that behind the aforementioned Resolution there is hidden an open pretense of encouraging and justifying the most extremist sectors of the country’s national and international opposition, which constantly try to alter the peace of the Nation and repeat the massive violation of the human rights of Venezuelan men and women, with the aim of destabilizing Venezuelan democracy.
For this reason, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela reserves the pertinent political and diplomatic measures in the face of the claims of those who promote this mechanism against the sovereignty and self-determination of the Venezuelan people, which violates the Charter of the United Nations, the pertinent resolutions of the General Assembly and the institutional construction package of the Human Rights Council, among other relevant instruments.
Venezuela has given ample and repeated signs of its willingness and commitment to collaborate with the various UN human rights mechanisms. In this regard, it will continue to cooperate with the Human Rights Council, based on strict adherence to the principles of objectivity, non-selectivity, non-politicization, impartiality, and constructive dialogue in dealing with human rights issues.
Finally, Venezuela reiterates that it does not recognize and will not recognize any protection mechanism created outside the principles of international law, which seeks to violate the independence, sovereignty and self-determination of the Venezuelan people.”
Caracas, October 7, 2022
