MP rejected statements issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Published at: 13/12/2024 05:38 PM

The Public Ministry (MP) issued a statement rejecting the statements issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, regarding Venezuela.

Below is the full text of the statement:

VOLKER TURK BECOMES AN ACCOMPLICE OF THE EXECUTIONERS OF

VENEZUELAN PEOPLE.

In his last failed speech on the situation in Venezuela on December 13, the United Nations High Commissioner

United for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has issued a series of irresponsible statements that distance him from what should be a position of balance and cooperative dialogue with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Especially serious is the levity with which the serious violence and terrorist acts unleashed after the Electoral Power announced the electoral results of July 28 are treated. The High Commissioner intends in a paragraph to hold the Venezuelan government responsible for the violence unleashed and exploited by the so-called Comanditos to unleash a civil war in the country.

There are no complaints that point to members of the State security forces in acts of repression that have caused injuries or deaths. Evidence and investigations clearly point to armed individuals and criminal groups participating in the protests as perpetrators of the shootings that caused 28 fatalities and nearly 200 injuries.

This violence didn't come out of nowhere. It is harmful to International Human Rights Law that its spokesperson explicitly omits each and every one of the violent and criminal plots and activities outside the Constitution and the Law that have fostered factors obsessed with overthrowing a legitimately constituted government by armed means; which to date add up to attempts at assassination and coups d'etat, assaults on military barracks, hiring foreign mercenaries and insurrectional sources that have resulted in the massive burning of public goods in the service of communities and the murder of innocents of both civilians and State security agents.

Equally, it is also incoherent for a human rights defender: his weak mention of the approximately 1,000 unilateral coercive measures that Venezuela undergoes, aimed at destroying its economy and causing pain and suffering to its population.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, her colleague Mrs. Alena Douhan, has said that “The devastating effect of the imposed sanctions is multiplied by their extraterritoriality and overcompliance, which negatively affects the public and private sectors, Venezuelan citizens, non-governmental organizations, and national or third country companies”. For this reason, it has repeatedly called for these measures to be lifted.

These statements by the High Commissioner are more like statements made by a servant of foreign powers that are enemies of the Venezuelan homeland and people. They copy the dicteries and infamies that fugitives from Venezuelan justice who have been prosecuted for brutal terrorist actions have issued since their golden exile.

The High Commissioner in this intervention seems to support the executioners who attack the population, thus becoming a protector of the perpetrators, thus tarnishing his role as a presumed defender of human rights.

We call on him, from our dignity and sovereignty, to rectify his treatment of Venezuela and to regain his balance and not allow himself to be manipulated by those who speak of human rights and erase countries from the map in the name of democracy.

Caracas, December 13, 2024

Tarek William Saab

Attorney General of the Republic

Mazo News Team