Venezuela expresses its categorical rejection of the most recent report on the Rights Human Rights (DDHH) issued by the Department of State of the United States (USA), informed this Tuesday the Foreign Minister of the Republic, Yván Gil.
Through his Twitter account, the Chancellor indicated that "despite maintaining a permanent aggression against the rights of the Venezuelan people, aims to rate the performance of other governments."
A country that invades others "cynically seeks to give lessons on how to safeguard human rights to the rest of humanity," stresses the statement accompanying the message from the Foreign Minister of the Republic.
"The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela rejects the most recent report on human rights from the Department of State of the United States, a country that, despite maintaining a permanent aggression against the rights of the Venezuelan people, seeks to qualify the actions of other governments," the Foreign Minister published regarding the human rights report.
The full statement published by the Foreign Ministry of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is presented below:
The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela categorically rejects the most recent report on Human Rights from the Department of State of the United States of America, a country that, despite maintaining a permanent aggression against the rights of the Venezuelan people, intends to classify the action as other governments.
A State that exactly 20 years ago launched one of the most brutal invasions in the history of mankind against the Iraqi people, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, implementing methods of torture and using weapons of war against civilians, cynically tries to teach lessons on how to safeguard human rights to the rest of humanity. This just goes to show that, for the US government, human rights are simply a tool used for political convenience, based on distorted narratives.
Once again, this report is published to attack sovereign countries, whose decisions are not made with the consent of Washington, while the United States, internally, fails to contain the growing poverty, fails to mitigate the brutality of institutionalized police racism , fails to abandon arbitrary measures of deprivation of liberty of undocumented migrants and does not stop applying illegal and unilateral coercive measures against at least 30% of the world population.
While disqualifying other nations, the United States has not signed or ratified important agreements such as: the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; the Rome Statute; the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families; the Convention on the Rights of the Child; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, among others. Meanwhile, the main architects of criminal wars, such as the one in Iraq, enjoy total impunity.
The Bolivarian Government, despite the permanent attacks by the United States and its accomplices, continues to defend the economic, political and social rights of the entire population and will continue to comply with its multilateral commitments to guarantee a dignified life for all its citizens.
Caracas, March 20, 2023
