The Venezuelan pair were also scheduled to face drug trafficking charges in a US federal court at an emergency meeting held on Monday in New York City.
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Samuel Moncada, Venezuela’s ambassador to the UN, criticized the US operation as an “illegitimate armed attack without any legal justification,” making similar remarks in Colombia, Russia, and China as permanent UNSC members.
Ernesto Soberon Guzman, Cuba’s ambassador, claimed that such measures negatively affected Cuba because they “impose the application of its laws” “far from its own territory and far from its coasts, where it has no jurisdiction,” as he alleged in a statement.
Vassily Nebenzia, the US’s ambassador, claimed that regardless of international law, sovereignty, or non-intervention, the country cannot claim to be a supreme court. Its own authority is to “proclaim itself as some kind of supreme judge, which has the power to invade any country, to label culprits, to hand down and to enforce punishments.”
Trump has previously threatened military action against both Mexico and Denmark, both of which have received notable criticism at the emergency session.
According to a UN readout, Mexico’s ambassador, Hector Vasconcelos, the council was “sovereign peoples to decide their destinies,” and it had an “obligation to act decisively and without double standards” toward the US.
Following Maduro’s abduction, Trump said that “something will have to be done about Mexico” and its drug cartels.
No state should attempt to influence Venezuela’s political outcomes through the use of threats or other means that are against international law, according to Denmark, a steadfast US security ally.
In a sharp remark to Trump’s threat that the US would annex Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory, the ambassador of Denmark, Christina Markus Lassen, said, “The inviolability of borders is not up for negotiation.”
Following French President Emmanuel Macron’s initial assertion that Venezuelans “can only rejoice” after Maduro’s abduction, France, a permanent member of the UNSC, also expressed concern for the US.
The military operation that led to Maduro’s capture contradicts the use of force, according to French deputy ambassador Jay Dharmadhikari, and contradicts the principle of peaceful dispute resolution.
Another permanent UNSC member, Latvia, and the United Kingdom, both with representatives from Latvia and the United Kingdom, were concerned about the conditions that Maduro’s government in Venezuela has created.
Sanita Pavuta-Deslandes, the ambassador to Latvia, cited widespread impunity, organized crime, and drug trafficking as examples of Maduro’s situation in Venezuela.
According to James Kariuki, the UK ambassador, “Maduro’s claim to power was fabricated.”
The US ambassador, Mike Waltz, referred to Maduro and his wife’s abduction as a “surgical law enforcement operation facilitated by the US military against two indicted fugitives of American justice.”
Source: Aljazeera
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