Venezuela celebrates UN resolution to eliminate unilateral coercive measures

Published at: 07/09/2024 11:14 AM

Ambassador Joaquín Pérez Ay, alternate permanent representative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United Nations (UN), participated this Friday in the last plenary meeting of the General Assembly for the 79th Session, following the adoption of the draft resolution Elimination of Unilateral Extraterritorial Coercive Economic Measures used as an Instrument of Political and Economic Coercion.

 

During his speech, the diplomat highlighted the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures, “applied in flagrant violation of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and of all norms of international law.” He also said that “its pernicious effects directly affect more than a third of humanity. However, in an indirect way, they affect the international community as a whole, since they have generated a systemic crisis that, among others, exacerbates the current multifaceted global crisis that we are facing as humanity”.

 

With regard to the resolution, which is successfully promoted by the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations, he pointed out that “it is, without a doubt, a step in the right direction, since it opens up spaces for holding, within this General Assembly, a periodic political dialogue that will allow us, on the one hand, to generate greater awareness of this global problem and to move towards the complete, immediate and unconditional lifting of these criminal measures that so much pain and suffering generates entire peoples around the world”.

Mazo News Team