The group of former presidents that make up the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA) lamented this Monday the “disrespect” by Nicolás Maduro to diplomatic asylum for collaborators of María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia.
According to EFE, the group regretted the “persecution” of members of Machado’s right-hand man, “who are subject to diplomatic asylum in the Argentine representation in Caracas without receiving the respective safe-conduct passes, which must be granted as a matter of urgency.”
In a statement, former presidents of IDEA denounced this “violation” of the 1954 Caracas Convention on diplomatic asylum, in this case “with the manifest purpose of undermining” Machado’s support for González Urrutia’s presidential candidacy.
They recalled that asylum is a “humanitarian practice with the aim of protecting the fundamental rights of the person” according to the International Court of Justice and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
In light of this, he urged the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) to consider the violations of the Asylum Convention by Venezuela and, if appropriate, to “urge the States Parties to this Convention, particularly Argentina, to file a petition before the International Court of Justice.”
He also complained that the “illegal and arbitrary imprisonment” of those who form Machado’s executive branch continues.
The declaration was signed by former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, former Colombian presidents Andrés Pastrana, Iván Duque and Álvaro Uribes, and former Costa Rican presidents Miguel Ángel Rodríguez and Luis Guillermo Solís, among a total of twenty former presidents.
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2024-07-05 23:55:10
