{"id":173827,"date":"2020-11-30T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=173827"},"modified":"2020-11-28T07:45:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T07:45:48","slug":"venezuela-presents-the-unsc-proposal-for-an-international-association-against-us-sanctions-to-stop-crimes-against-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/11\/venezuela-presents-the-unsc-proposal-for-an-international-association-against-us-sanctions-to-stop-crimes-against-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela Presents the UNSC Proposal for an International Association against US Sanctions to Stop Crimes against Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_173828\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Venezuela-UN-ambassador-Samuel-Moncada.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-173828\" class=\"wp-image-173828\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Venezuela-UN-ambassador-Samuel-Moncada.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Venezuela-UN-ambassador-Samuel-Moncada.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Venezuela-UN-ambassador-Samuel-Moncada-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Venezuela-UN-ambassador-Samuel-Moncada-768x427.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-173828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samuel Moncada, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela\u2019s ambassador to the UN. File photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>26 Nov 2020 &#8211; <\/em>The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Samuel Moncada, intervened this Wednesday [25 Nov] in the session of the Security Council to denounce the economic aggression of the United States against twenty-nine countries of the world, through their misnamed \u201csanctions,\u201d and proposed the formation of an International Alliance to stop the crimes against humanity perpetuated by the US in violation of human rights and the UN Charter.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe US pretension to impose its national legislation as if they were universal laws, through economic and military coercion, is a danger to the entire system of international relations,\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>said the high diplomatic representative at the UN, through the publication of several videos in his virtual participation in the session.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/orinocotribune.com\/president-maduro-maradona-helped-in-secret-operations-to-bring-food-to-venezuela-us-sanctions\/\" title=\"President Maduro: \u201cMaradona Helped in Secret Operations to Bring Food to Venezuela\u201d (US Sanctions)\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RELATED: President Maduro: \u201cMaradona Helped in Secret Operations to Bring Food to Venezuela\u201d (US Sanctions)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Through his Twitter account, @SMoncada_VEN , he reported that Venezuela supports the creation of this \u201cInternational Association against Unilateral Coercive Measures,\u201d as an operational platform that will combat the illegal sanctions that the US has imposed against a third of humanity.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Venezuela propone en ONU la formaci\u00f3n de una \u201cAsociaci\u00f3n Internacional contra las Medidas Coercitivas Unilaterales\u201d como plataforma operacional que permita combatir las sanciones ilegales de EEUU contra un tercio de la humanidad. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KdmADHesAE\" >pic.twitter.com\/KdmADHesAE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Samuel Moncada (@SMoncada_VEN) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SMoncada_VEN\/status\/1331735192072056833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >November 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cToday we denounce in the UN Security Council, Trump\u2019s economic aggression against twenty-nine countries\u2014including Venezuela\u2014representing a third of humanity, attacked in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic,\u201d<\/em> stated the Venezuelan ambassador.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He stressed that these illegal measures amount to a systematic and deliberate attack against entire populations, and against the right to self-determination of peoples, <em>\u201cby a permanent member of the Security Council.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">La pretensi\u00f3n de EEUU de imponer su legislaci\u00f3n nacional como si fueran leyes universales, a trav\u00e9s de la coerci\u00f3n econ\u00f3mica y militar, es un peligro para todo el sistema de relaciones internacionales. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xKGYGWGxsg\" >pic.twitter.com\/xKGYGWGxsg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Samuel Moncada (@SMoncada_VEN) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SMoncada_VEN\/status\/1331733795494629383?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >November 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe face the unusual situation in which a Member State with a special responsibility to comply with international law, perpetrates crimes against humanity and forces other States to assist it in committing the crime,\u201d<\/em> he reproached.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The immoral economic persecution through criminal means is aggravated by the use of military threats, which increase obstacles in the struggle of countries to combat the coronavirus pandemic. In this sense, he denounced the so-called \u201chumanitarian exceptions\u201d to these coercive measures, which the US says it applies to help the affected peoples, as a cruel and utter mockery.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/orinocotribune.com\/diplomacy-of-the-peoples-evo-morales-on-the-return-of-bolivia-to-alba-celac-and-unasur\/\" title=\"\u201cDiplomacy of the Peoples\u201d: Evo Morales on the Return of Bolivia to ALBA, CELAC and UNASUR\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RELATED: \u201cDiplomacy of the Peoples\u201d: Evo Morales on the Return of Bolivia to ALBA, CELAC and UNASUR<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/orinocotribune.com\/venezuela-presents-proposal-for-an-international-association-against-us-sanctions-to-stop-crimes-against-humanity-un-security-council\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; orinocotribune.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela\u2019s ambassador to the UN, Samuel Moncada, intervened on 25 Nov 2020 in the Security Council session to denounce the economic aggression of the U.S. against twenty-nine countries of the world, through misnamed \u201csanctions,\u201d and proposed an International Alliance to stop the crimes against humanity by the USA in violation of human rights and the UN Charter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":173828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[867,1473,276,267,1126,1050,541,234,109,287,1190,923,249,70,557,126,92,172],"class_list":["post-173827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-nations","tag-anglo-america","tag-blockade","tag-democracy","tag-geopolitics","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-latin-america-caribbean","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-power","tag-regime-change","tag-sanctions","tag-trump","tag-usa","tag-venezuela","tag-violence","tag-violent-conflict","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}