Washington uses terrorism label as political weapon against Venezuela.
During an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Tuesday, Cuba accused the United States of blatantly and violently violating international law and undermining freedom of trade and navigation.
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Ernesto Soberon, Cuba’s representative to the UNSC, said the United States is using the designation of “terrorism” as a political weapon aimed at discrediting the Venezuelan government through an “arbitrary, fraudulent, unilateral and politically motivated” tactic.
“What moral authority does the U.S. government have to make such designations when it protects and finances terrorist organizations on its own territory, refuses to cooperate with neighboring countries such as Cuba on terrorism issues, and openly speaks of covert actions and sabotage from the United States?” Soberon said.
“It is clear that the purpose of the United States is to justify the costly and extraordinary military deployment in the region, with which it seeks to attack Venezuela and impose its odious hegemony in the hemisphere,” he added.
Soberon warned of provocations intended to “further escalate aggression against Venezuelan territory and seize its natural resources,” recalling that “Venezuela and any other state under attack has the right to legitimate self-defense.”
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“The new U.S. national security strategy, with its so-called corollary of the Monroe Doctrine, seeks to consolidate the Western Hemisphere as a U.S. exclusive zone of influence,” Soberon said.
“This policy validates the dangerous doctrine of peace through force and enshrines cognitive warfare as state policy,” he added, specifying that U.S. actions violate the proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace.
The Cuban diplomat reiterated that the conspicuous, exaggerated, and unjustified naval deployment of U.S. military forces in the Caribbean Sea, as well as the deliberate threat of military aggression against Venezuela, are generating regional instability.
“This reveals a criminal hegemonic purpose that requires universal condemnation,” Soberon said, while rejecting the extension of European Union sanctions against Venezuela.
“Those sanctions run counter to international law and the United Nations Charter, as they seek to increase pressure on the Venezuelan government and are tied to the aggressive interests of the United States,” he emphasized.
“Cuba reaffirms its total and unconditional support for Venezuela and demands full respect for its sovereignty, independence and the unrestricted right to freely decide its own destiny, without external interference,” Soberon concluded.
During a presidential event, the president of #Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, stated that the role of a president is to address the problems of their country and not to interfere in the affairs of other #nations. pic.twitter.com/kBelmkFPE1
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