New York, September 25, 2024 – Venezuela’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, strongly criticized the United States on Wednesday, asserting that peace and security cannot advance globally while the imperialist powers hold the United Nations (UN) as a hostage.
During his address at the General Debate of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, held in New York, the Venezuelan Foreign Minister questioned, “How can we advance on matters of peace and security when the body responsible for maintaining it is being held hostage by the United States of America, whose government persists in providing impunity to violators of international law?”
In this context, Gil denounced that oligarchies, led by the U.S. government, “are attacking the UN Charter with the aim of destroying this organization from both the outside and within,” which they have nearly achieved through the promotion of “the involvement of private corporations, non-governmental organizations, and other strategies that undermine the sovereignty of States,” disguised under what they term the “rules-based order.”
Gil further warned of the resurgence of fascism and Nazism, “political movements of imposition and domination that promote white supremacy, racism, xenophobia, and other forms of discrimination, normalized with the support of major international media monopolies and social networks, which are at the service of imperialism and neocolonialism, supporting their plans to create tensions, fabricate conflicts, and divide peoples.”
Genocide in Palestine
The Venezuelan diplomat condemned the genocide in Palestine, perpetrated by the Zionist regime of Israel, which “has murdered tens of thousands of innocent girls, boys, women, and men, with the complicity of the governments of the United States and the European Union.” He highlighted that “they also aim to export their hatred and destruction to an entire region, bombing and killing innocents in Lebanon and Syria, while trying to destabilize the Islamic Republic of Iran,” which poses a serious threat to humanity and global peace.
“Israel has become a death machine that must be stopped immediately. However, instead of halting the massacre and bringing those responsible to justice, the powerful continue to expand war into Europe and other parts of the world through military blocs such as NATO. After Ukraine’s defeat in its Nazi adventure, they now seek to carry war and terrorism to Great Russia, which, as history has taught us, will always emerge victorious,” he emphasized.
Threat to Peace in South America
Minister Gil also warned about the threat to South American peace posed by NATO’s expansion, “with the establishment of military bases, facilitated by the complicit governments of Argentina and Ecuador.”
“Hate speech fuels and promotes terrorism in its various forms. From U.S. territory, for instance, attacks, assassination attempts, destabilization efforts, and aggressions against sovereign peoples, such as Venezuela, are planned,” he stated.
In this context, he pointed out that imperialism has resorted to using information and communication technologies, such as social media, to fabricate “psychological wars aimed at exploiting feelings of hatred and destruction, without any form of control.”
End of colonialism
The Head of Venezuela’s Bolivarian diplomacy reaffirmed the country’s anti-colonial stance, rejecting the persistence in “maintaining a status quo that only benefits the occupying and administering powers.” He expressed Venezuela’s “firm support for all peoples fighting for their inalienable right to self-determination, full independence, and ownership of their destiny, lands, and resources.”
“It is time for the aspirations of our brothers and sisters in Western Sahara, Puerto Rico, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Bonaire, and many other territories to be finally realized,” he declared.
He concluded by emphasizing that Venezuela “embraces with determination all these great causes, which we have historically made our own. We are determined to contribute to the end of colonialism in all its forms and manifestations.”
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