The Government of Venezuela denounced on Tuesday before the United Nations (UN) the aggression of the United States against its territory and demanded that measures be taken to condemn the attacks and curb the deployment of forces in the Caribbean.
"We demand that it explicitly condemn this ongoing aggression, from extrajudicial executions to acts of piracy. We also demand that it adopt the necessary measures for the Government of the United States to withdraw its military forces," declared the ambassador of Venezuela, Samuel Moncada.
According to the Argentine News Agency (NA), the Venezuelan diplomat made these statements during an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council convened to discuss the situation in Venezuela, following the US raids.
"This is the largest extortion known in our history, a gigantic crime of aggression in progress, outside of all rational parameter, of all legal logic."
During his intervention, Moncada made it clear that Venezuelan oil does not belong to the United States, as claimed by that nation's president, Donald Trump, and that "it has no legal or historical basis".
