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The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, rejected the “military provocations” and economic sanctions imposed on Russia by the West due to the war in Ukraine, through a letter read by his foreign minister, Carlos Faría, before the General Assembly of the United Nations.
“We reject all the military provocations and interventionist economic sanctions that have been taken against Russia, as well as the campaign of hatred unleashed to the detriment of the Slavic people, considering that these actions, far from adding to peace, fan the fire of war”, says the text, a letter “open to humanity”.
The South American country supported Mexico’s proposal to create a “mediation committee”, made up of various heads of state and government, to promote the end of the war in Ukraine .
“ We subscribe to the proposal (…) that calls for the creation of an international commission to facilitate dialogue on between Russia and Ukraine, and we put ourselves in order to facilitate their conditions”, continued the Venezuelan.
The president of Venezuela called on world leaders to leave ideological positions in the background and prioritize “the reestablishment of the diplomatic path and of political dialogue over military confrontation”.
“Humanity will not survive a world war, therefore no one is interested in an escalation of war in nowhere in the world (…) there are no good wars and bad wars in the eyes of my country”, he remarked.
“Political persecution”
The president recalled that his country weighs 913 economic sanctions and took the opportunity to ask for an end to these “illegal” restrictions, as well as the “political persecution” against Nicaragua, Cuba, Iran and Russia, nations ideologically close to the revolution Bolivarian ion.
He considered that the planet is on the verge of a crisis “that could be the last for humanity”, before which he asked the leaders of Europe and North America if they are deaf or, instead, they can bet on an “ethical change in favor of the construction of a new world without colonized or colonizers”.
“It (the West) has to accept the indisputable emergence of new powers and new leaderships such as China, Russia, India, Iran, Turkey (…) there is no time for arrogance, there is no time for confrontation and useless skirmishes”, he pointed out.
Going further, he made a call to amend injustices and that the claims of the Saharawi and Palentino peoples be recognized, who have been denied, he said, the “right to have a homeland.”
Likewise, he spoke in favor of reparation for the Argentine people, for whom he asked that his rights be restored. rights over the Malvinas Islands -located in the South Atlantic and controlled by the United Kingdom since 1833- which, in the words of Maduro, were “ wrested from blood and fire by imperial logic”.