Guterres on US sanctions against Maduro allies
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres believes that The new sanctions of the United States government against 16 senior officials of Nicolás Maduro Those he accuses of obstructing the last elections will not help find a way out of the political crisis in which the country finds itself.
“I don’t think they will help,” Guterres’ spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said when asked about this at his daily press briefing at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
He immediately added that in the UN General Secretariat Concerns about respect for human rights and the lack of transparency continue still prevalent today after the presidential elections of July 28 in Venezuela.
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Secretary António Guterres believes that sanctions pic.twitter.com/bqpfT6BFsC from the US to Maduro’s allies “do not help solve the crisis.”“Our concern about respect for human rights and the way in which the lack of transparency of the results…
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US sanctions Venezuelan officials
Washington announced sanctions against 16 Maduro allies – including the president of Venezuela’s Supreme Court and leaders of the country’s armed forces – for human rights violations and obstructing the free conduct of the recent elections.
In those elections, Venezuelan electoral authorities declared Maduro the winner shortly after the polls closed, but they never published a breakdown minute by minutearguing that the National Electoral Council’s website had been hacked.
Opposition leaders María Corina Machado and the standard-bearer of the Democratic Unitary Platform Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutiawho recently went into exile in Spain, appealed to the illegality of the process, with public support from the international community, including left-wing leaders in Latin America such as Lula da Silva (Brazil) and Gabriel Boric (Chile).
However, and beyond generic calls for “dialogue”, The international community cannot agree on any initiative that will allow us to overcome the crisis in Venezuela, nor a formula for dialogue that is acceptable to the parties.
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