Attempt to Impose Illegitimate Venezuelan
Representative Roundly Opposed at Organization
of American States
At the April 23 meeting of the Permanent Council of the
Organization of American States (OAS), the main items on the agenda
were a presentation by Gustavo Tarré -- the opposition figure
appointed by the U.S. via its puppet Juan Guaidó to "represent
Venezuela" at the OAS -- and consideration of "Plans for the Democratic
Reconstruction of Venezuela." Tarré was imposed as the "special
representative of the National Assembly of Venezuela" before the OAS by
an illegal process at an April 9 meeting of the council, despite it
being known to all that on April 27 Venezuela would be leaving the OAS
of its own volition.[1]
The meeting was just one more provocation by the coup-plotting
Secretary General Luis Almagro and the U.S. Ambassador to the OAS
who conveniently occupies the rotating presidency of the
Permanent Council at this time.
Despite the acquiescence of Canada and others in the
Lima Group who have shown they will countenance and even lead all
manner of illegal activity to further the aim of regime change in
Venezuela, there would be no smooth sailing for the U.S. and its
appeasers as they tried to use the occasion to take one last kick at
the can before Venezuela finally left. One by one the representatives
of 13 member states took the floor right after the meeting was called
to order to register their rejection of Gustavo Tarré taking
Venezuela's seat given that he did not represent the country's
constitutional government and his "appointment" as Venezuela's
"permanent ambassador" openly violated all international norms,
including the OAS Charter and rules of procedure.
Defying the pressure and blackmail that the small
Caribbean island states in particular surely faced from the U.S. and
its Lima Group, they and others declared that they considered the April
9 resolution null and void and without legal effect. All of them
reserved their rights not to accept actions or decisions taken by the
Permanent Council or any of its committees while it remains in place.
The countries that expressed their objection to what was taking place
included almost all those who had voted against or abstained on the
contentious resolution that seated Guaidó's envoy.
The representative of Uruguay said it was up to each
country
to decide which governments of other countries it recognized,
that the OAS was not entitled to do that and warned that if it
upholds the resolution it will fall foul of international law.
Surinam said it objected to the selective application of
procedural rules and that negative precedents were being set
against multilateralism, international law and international
relations. Bolivia said the resolution attacked the good faith of
members states and the foundational principles of the OAS and UN
Charters.
Tarré's "presentation" was little more than an
arrogant attempt to discredit everything that had been said about the
illegality of the process by which he had taken over Venezuela's seat,
as well as to divide those who had taken a stand against it, and drive
a wedge between all of them and the government of Nicolás
Maduro, which he spent most of his time slandering. Eventually he got
around to saying that the reconstruction of Venezuela would require
international cooperation and that the OAS would be a good body to
coordinate that.
At least four of the countries that spoke out against
the illegitimate representative being seated reportedly walked out
before he spoke. Such was Tarré's inauspicious debut thanks to
all those who rose in defence of the rule of law.
On April 27, there will be a march in Caracas to
celebrate
Venezuela's exit from the OAS in a spirit of "good riddance!"
Note
1. See "Selling or
Saving the Soul of the OAS," TML Weekly, April 13, 2019.
This article was published in
Volume 49 Number
15 - April 27, 2019
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Attempt
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Roundly Opposed at
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