Moncada at the UN: The US government is a threat to peace

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Venezuela's ambassador to the UN, Samuel Moncada, warned ahead of the emergency meeting requested by the country.
55% : "Following the theft of the oil tanker from the country in Caribbean waters by the US State, a de facto annexation is committed in the Atlantic Ocean, which disregards free trade between other nations and the Homeland of Bolívar," he denounced.
55% : No answers "The United States will do everything in its power to protect our hemisphere, our borders, and the American people," responded Washington's ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz.
52% : " The representation of Sierra Leone At the UN Security Council, he called for avoiding an escalation in the Caribbean region and near Venezuela, and for maintaining Latin America and the Caribbean as a zone of peace.
51% : On December 10, they attacked a vessel engaged in legitimate international trade and illegally seized its cargo of legitimate Venezuelan oil, a commercial operation, which sets a serious precedent for the safety of navigation in the region," he warned.
44% : The US ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz, simply repeated that the US will impose "maximum" sanctions on Venezuela and reiterated that US President Donald Trump has been "very clear" in his intention to use "the full power and force of the US" to confront and eradicate the drug cartels, which have operated with impunity in our hemisphere for far too long, insisting on his argument for the use of force to combat the flow of drugs through the region.
42% : The representative of Brazil Before the UN Security Council, Sérgio França Danese on Tuesday called on the US to "immediately cease" the announced naval blockade against Venezuela.
41% : " Russia and China condemn the interference Representatives from Russia and China strongly criticized the military and economic pressure exerted by the United States on Venezuela before the UN Security Council on Tuesday, calling it "cowboy behavior" and "intimidation.
38% : "The United States is perpetrating completely unacceptable acts because they violate fundamental norms of international law, as well as Security Council resolutions and the Charter of the United Nations.
34% : It must also demand accountability to prevent its recurrence; "otherwise, a dark world, governed by force, without the United Nations, will be consolidated," he warned.
30% : He stated that the actions of the United States are interventionist and violate the Charter of the United Nations, constituting a serious breach of international law and a threat to the peace and sovereignty of nations.

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