Diosdado Cabello lashes out at the UN General Assembly: what he said

The ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) on Monday described the United Nations General Assembly, which is being held this week in New York, where Foreign Minister Yván Gil traveled in representation of their country.

“These are totally obsolete spaces, but they are spaces that we cannot abandon,” said the first vice president of the PSUV, Diosdado Cabello, in a press conference broadcast by the state channel VTV.

The Minister of the Interior also indicated that in his opinion the UN “has become a useless thing” that “does not make decisions, does nothing” and “is concerned about what the United States decides and not about what affects the world.”

He criticized the organization for being “concerned about what is happening in Venezuela” and, he said, not about “what is happening in Palestine” and “the massacre, the genocide of the Zionists, of the murderers who govern Israel.”

However, the UN High Level Week 2024, which will bring together 133 heads of state and government, will have the conflict in the Middle East as its central theme at a time of maximum tension in Gaza and Lebanon, which according to the UN Secretary General himself has increased the “risk of global war”.

The crisis in Venezuela will also be addressed, as well as forums organized by the opposition around the opposition leader Maria Corina MachadoThe United States has promoted a ministerial event to increase pressure on President Nicolás Maduro.

On Friday, the Venezuelan head of state handed over to the UN Resident Coordinator in the country, Gianluca Rampolla, “evidence” of an alleged conspiracy that, according to VTV, is being hatched in the US against the Chavista government.

The meeting in Caracas took place hours after a telephone conversation between the president and the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, who then expressed “his concern about the post-election violence and the accusations of human rights violations” in the country.

Venezuela is experiencing a political crisis after the National Electoral Council (CNE) declared Maduro the winner of the July 28 elections based on results that are still unknown in detail, while the majority opposition claims the victory of its standard-bearer, Edmundo González Urrutia, who – it claims – won by a wide margin.

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