Minister of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs, Jorge Arreaza, and Solicitor General, Reinaldo Muñoz, addressed on Wednesday the National Assembly’s Permanent Commission on Foreign Policy, Sovereignty and Integration, and agreed to work on a joint strategy to defeat the imperial aggression against Venezuela.
About this aggression promoted by the U.S. Government and its allied countries, Foreign Minister Arreaza explained it includes two issues that concern all Venezuelans regardless of their political positions: The unilateral coercive measures and the defense of the Guayana Esequiba.
“We share the same constitutional project and we must defend it,” said Arreaza.
In their address, held at the Legislative Federal Palace, the Venezuelan foreign minister and the solicitor general explained how the unilateral coercive measures violate the Charter of the United Nations and discussed reports by special rapporteurs, resolutions of the UN Human Rights Council and General Assembly, and reports by experts who have conducted field studies in Venezuela showing the criminal effects of these measures on the population.
Arreaza pointed out that they also reviewed statements by U.S. government officials that have admitted to taking steps to inflict pain in the population and force governments to surrender.
“In the Venezuelan case, they failed to properly assess the country. They were not aware of the Venezuelan people’s inborn, libertarian genetic load. We won’t let anyone impose anything on us,” affirmed Minister Arreaza, who also celebrated his address to the National Assembly as a fact that vindicates the institutionality of the Venezuelan state.
Solicitor General Muñoz added that the imposition of unilateral coercive measures is worsened by a legal, financial structure at the service of a specific political group in Venezuela, a group that acts immediately after each executive order is issued by Washington and calls banks, service providers, and insurance companies “to advance much more serious aggressions.”
Member of the National Assembly Timoteo Zambrano, president of the Commission on Foreign Policy, said that the address of the Venezuelan government officials enabled to assess the impact of unilateral coercive measures, the ways they are imposed and the actions taken by the Bolivarian Government before the International Criminal Court (ICC) based on the Rome Statute.
Zambrano stressed they understand this issue should be conveyed to the people, and agreed to hold permanent assessment meetings and two Joint Sub-commissions to work on a common strategy to face sanctions.
Finally, the President of the Commission on Foreign Policy recognized the progress made in the strategy followed by the Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs and the Solicitor General’s Office as it will guide the path to follow for the de-escalation of these imperial aggressions.