The Venezuelan president has alleged that he does not pay them due to the sanctions imposed by the United States
MADRID, 5 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, has demanded this Friday from the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, that Venezuela recover the right to vote in the UN General Assembly despite not paying his country’s fees to the body, alleging that cannot do so due to US sanctions.
On the occasion of the new support of the UN General Assembly for Cuba against the United States embargo achieved last Wednesday –with the vote in favor of a resolution against the blockade of 185 countries– Maduro has congratulated Cuba regretting not having been able to join in the vote.
“Great victory for Cuba, congratulations to the people of Cuba. It is a moral victory, a diplomatic, political victory that gives our countries full, absolute reason that the US empire must cease its criminal mechanisms of persecution; of torture against peoples,” the Venezuelan president emphasized in statements reported by the Venezuelan newspaper ‘Ultimas Noticias’.
In this sense, he has argued that Venezuela cannot exercise its right to vote to support Cuba because “the financial blockade imposed by the United States” on the country “prevents having bank accounts to pay the quotas and obligations at the UN.”
“They have removed us from the voting system, we have the right to speak, but we do not have the right to vote, as a result of the sanctions,” Maduro asserted.
For this reason, the Venezuelan president has demanded from Guterres the right of his country to vote in the United Nations General Assembly, diminished by “the blockade that prevents paying with the commitments with the multilateral entity,” according to the aforementioned newspaper.
“It is an obligation, a duty of Guterres to resolve that Venezuela, having the resources, the money, can have the bank account to pay and have the right to vote there in the UN,” he stressed.
However, Maduro has highlighted that, despite the fact that his country could not exercise the vote, it did “fully” exercise the right to speak, which is why Venezuela would have stood up “with its truth, with its Bolivarian voice” to say that he is with Cuba and “against the criminal 60-year blockade that has martyred, tortured and persecutes Cuba.”
On Wednesday, for the thirtieth time, Cuba drew the attention of the international community with this symbolic gesture, without direct political repercussions. On an annual basis, it serves to defend its political positions before the UN body in which all member states are represented.
