Cuba has described as “interventionist” the resolution approved on Friday by the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) that demands that Venezuelan authorities publish “expeditiously” the electoral records of last July 28 in that country.
“As we warned, the interventionist resolution on Venezuela was imposed in the OAS,” wrote Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez in X.
He also said that the OAS, “which supported coups and dictatorships and did not condemn US invasions in the region, lacks the authority to urge our countries to submit to spurious mandates. Stop the interference.”
The organization’s resolution urges the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela to “expeditiously publish the minutes with the results of the voting of the presidential elections at the level of each electoral table.”
The Commission also calls for “the fundamental principle of popular sovereignty to be respected through impartial verification of the results that guarantees the transparency, credibility and legitimacy of the electoral process.”
The non-binding text was submitted on behalf of the United States and co-sponsors Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, Suriname and Uruguay.
Their call joins those made on Friday by the European Union and 22 other countries in favour of the “immediate publication of all the original minutes” of the elections and the “impartial” and “independent” verification of the results of those elections, in which, according to the CNE, Nicolás Maduro beat Edmundo González Urrutia.
On July 31, 17 governments voted in favor of another OAS resolution calling on Venezuelan authorities to publish the election records “immediately,” but this initiative ultimately failed.
That first text had 17 votes in favor, none against, 11 abstentions – like those of Colombia and Brazil – and five absences, so it did not achieve the absolute majority necessary to pass.
Venezuela’s CNE has declared President Nicolás Maduro’s victory for a third consecutive term, in results rejected by the opposition and questioned by several foreign governments and international monitoring groups.
The main opposition coalition – the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) – led by Edmundo González Urrutia, claims to have obtained a “monumental victory” with 7.3 million votes, according to the electoral records obtained by that majority bloc.
Cuba, a political ally of Venezuela, was one of the first countries to recognize Maduro’s victory decreed by the CNE, despite protests against this result.
Havana / EFE
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2024-08-18 16:04:24
