Hands Off Venezuela!
Inexcusable Provocation by U.S. Southern Command in Venezuela's Contiguous Zone
- Ministry of Peoples' Power
for Foreign Affairs
of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela -
Hamilton, February 20, 2020.
In a press
release on July 15, U.S. Southern Command stated that one of its
warships, allegedly engaged in an "enhanced counter-narcotics operations"
in the Caribbean had "challenged Venezuela's excessive maritime claim
in international waters" in what it called a freedom of navigation
operation. In response, the Venezuelan government has issued the
following communiqué:
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela addresses the
national and international community on the occasion of its denouncing
of the infamous statements issued by the United States Southern Command
through its official social media accounts, in which it points out that
Venezuela is exercising "excessive control" over its jurisdictional
waters, while the war vessel USS PINCKNEY (DDG-91) was sailing in our
Contiguous Zone at a distance of sixteen point one (16.1) nautical
miles from the Venezuelan coast.
The illegal entry of the U.S. vessel into
Venezuelan jurisdictional waters is a clear violation of International
Maritime Law and can only be described as an inexcusable act of
provocation -- erratic and childish -- which is being carried out as a
result of the recent visit of Donald Trump to the aforementioned
military command in Florida, in his desperate campaign to attract the
Latino vote in that state in exchange for permanent and illegal
aggression against Venezuela.
The institutions of the Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela, particularly its Bolivarian National Armed Forces, will
ensure respect for the sacred sovereignty and territorial integrity of
Venezuela at all costs according to international law, contemplating
all actions deemed necessary, without falling into absurd provocations
intended to affect the peace and tranquility of Venezuelans, as well as
the Latin American and Caribbean peoples.
Caracas, July 16, 2020
This article was published in
Volume 50 Number 26 - July 18, 2020
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