The president Nicolas Maduro He stated this Monday that the UN institutions are “under the rubble” after a year of “the most terrible war ever seen since the time” of Adolf Hitler, referring to the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.
«It is very regrettable that, in one year, international law and the United Nations institutions were left under the rubble. The International Court of Justice demonstrated to whom it responds, it responds to the powers of the West, it responds to Zionism, (…) it could have stopped the massacre, the genocide, and they couldn’t, they didn’t want to,” Maduro stated.
UN institutions are in ruins
In this context, he criticized that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is, in his opinion, “very active” when it comes to “trying to deprive Venezuela of Guayana Esequiba, for example”, acting to the detriment of the interests of a sovereign country such as the Caribbean, in reference to the territory in dispute with Guyana, on which the UN judicial body declared itself competent to issue a ruling.
In his program Con Maduro +’, broadcast on the state channel VTV, the head of state said that the UN Security Council was left under the rubble, and urged the end of this insane war and the unviable and criminal project of the prime minister. Israeli, Benjamin Netanyahu.
It is a war of extermination against the Palestinian Arab people, and it is a war that had years of preparation, (…) it is already beginning to be an insane war of aggression and extermination against the peoples of the so-called Middle East,” he emphasized.
On the other hand, the Palestinian ambassador to the country, Fadi Alzaben, made clear his rejection of the impunity enjoyed by Israel and the complicit silence on the part of the international community.
He added that in the last year, Israel has turned the Gaza Strip into a children’s cemetery and in the sight of the international community, in the sight of the European Union and the United Nations.
“They have failed us (…), all world organizations have not been able to put an end to the aggressions, to the Israeli atrocities against our people,” he added.
(With information from EFE)
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