The Permanent Mission of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United Nations denounced on December 17, 2025, a “serious aggression” by the United States government, which includes military threats, a unilateral naval blockade, and the designation of Venezuela as a foreign terrorist organization. In a letter addressed to the President of the Security Council, Slovenian Ambassador Samuel Žbogar, Venezuelan representative Samuel Reinaldo Moncada Acosta requested the immediate convening of an emergency meeting of the body to address the situation.

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The denunciation is based on a series of statements made by US President Donald Trump the previous day on his social media platform, Truth Social, in which he asserted: “Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest navy ever assembled in the history of South America” and announced a “total and complete blockade of all authorized oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela.” Trump justified the measure by alleging the supposed “theft” of U.S. assets, as well as accusations of terrorism, drug trafficking, and human trafficking.

Furthermore, on December 17, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller declared that “the entire Venezuelan oil industry belongs to the United States of America,” referring to the world’s largest oil reserves.

The Venezuelan document emphasizes that these actions constitute “a flagrant violation of Article 2.4 of the Charter of the United Nations,” which prohibits the use or threat of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state. It also points out that the naval blockade unilaterally imposed by the U.S. “is clearly defined in Article 3© of General Assembly Resolution 3314 (XXIX) as a crime of aggression.”

The letter recalls that on December 10, 2025, the United States had already resorted to the use of military force against a commercial vessel transporting Venezuelan oil, whose crew members remain missing. It also denounces the unilateral imposition of a “total closure of Venezuelan airspace,” announced by Trump on November 29, which jeopardizes the safety of international civil aviation.

Venezuela urges the Security Council to act urgently.

The Venezuelan government considers these measures to represent “a colossal act of extortion against a sovereign state” and an attempt to impose a policy of “gunboat diplomacy” incompatible with the 21st-century international order. Therefore, it requested the Security Council, pursuant to Article 39 of the UN Charter, to adopt “the necessary measures to restore international law.”

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