Siege and power outage persist at the Argentine embassy
Pedro Urruchurtu, one of the asylum seekers in the official residence of the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, reported at 7:00 am this Sunday that the power outage and the siege by agents of the administration of Nicolás Maduro in front of the diplomatic headquarters continued. .
On Saturday, the Argentine government reported acts of harassment and intimidation against the Venezuelans asylum in the embassy, which remains under the diplomatic protection of Brazil.
7AM on November 24: At this time the siege of the official residence of the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, protected by Brazil, continues and the power outage continues. pic.twitter.com/S4JLO036d9
— Pedro Urruchurtu Noselli (@Urruchurtu) November 24, 2024
“The Argentine Republic condemns the acts of harassment and intimidation against people sheltered in the Argentine embassy in Caracas, currently under the diplomatic protection of the Government of Brazil,” said the Argentine Foreign Ministry in a statement published on the social network. x.
The government of Javier Milei asserted that the deployment of armed forces, the closure of streets around the Argentine embassy in Caracas and other maneuvers constitute a disturbance of security that must be guaranteed to diplomatic headquarters in accordance with international law, as well as to those who have requested diplomatic asylum.
In its statement, Argentina made “a call to the international community to condemn these practices and demand the necessary safe conduct to allow the departure” from Venezuela of the six opponents who have taken refuge in the diplomatic headquarters since last March.
The opponents sought refuge after the Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office accused them of several crimes, such as conspiracy and treason.
The Argentine Republic condemns the acts of harassment and intimidation against asylum seekers in the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, currently under the diplomatic protection of the Brazilian government.
The deployment of armed forces, the closure of streets around…
— Argentine Foreign Ministry 🇦🇷 (@Cancilleria_Ar) November 24, 2024
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