They confirm the reactivation of the UN Human Rights office
The government of Venezuela confirmed this Tuesday the reactivation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Acnudh) in Venezuelan territory, which was expelled in February for alleged bias in her workaccording to the Executive.
Through a statement, the government responded to the statements of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, who urged Caracas on Monday to allow the expelled representatives to enter Venezuela to reactivate the office suspended from workas had been promised “previously in writing”, and urged the Executive to “cooperate in a more tangible way” with the ICC prosecutor’s office.
Venezuela considered it “worrying” that the ICC prosecutor “has not been kept up to date with these developments” when assuring that the reactivation of the OHCHR office was completed last November.
Venezuela He assured that he has informed the ICC prosecutor “in a timely and comprehensive manner” about “all the measures adopted in the internal order.” to advance in “fulfillment of the commitments assumed with the Rome Statute, as well as those reached in the two memoranda of understanding signed with the Prosecutor’s Office.”
In February, the Venezuelan government suspended the activities of the OHCHR technical office, established since September 2019, considering that they “instrumentalized” its work against the Executive.
However, two months later, Maduro invited the OHCHR office to return to Venezuela and proposed overcoming “the differences”, a return that took place more than half a year later.
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