The
United States is trying to strong-arm the Security Council into
discussing Nicaragua and Venezuela despite overwhelming lack of
consensus.
The U.N.
Security Council meeting will move forward with a controversial
decision to discuss Nicaragua and Venezuela, even without the
consensus of all 15 members.
On
Tuesday, China, Russia, Bolivia and Ethiopia rejected the U.S.
proposal to include Nicaragua and Venezuela on the council agenda,
saying the two Latin American countries pose no international
security threat and that doing so could jeopardize peace efforts.
Equatorial
Guinea and Kuwait were also hesitant to convene the conversation.
Despite
the opposition, the United States proceeded to include Nicaragua and
Venezuela on the agenda for the Security Council meeting, being
presided over by the United States.
Last
week, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega dismissed a lengthy U.N.
High Commission for Human Rights report regarding protests that took
place between April 18 and August 18, calling its conclusions biased.
According
to the Ortega administration, the report relies on Western mainstream
media sources to gather information that hasn't been fact-checked or
verified.
President
Ortega has also said the right-wing sector that initiated the
soft-coup attempt meant to merely destabilize the economy and wasn't
concerned with work, health or education rights.
According
to Nicaragua's Commission for Truth Peace and Justice, 270 people
died and over 2,100 were injured during the protests. Protests
initially broke out in April over state plans to increase social
security contributions in order to bridge a budget deficit. Those
demonstrations were quickly co-opted by violent opposition groups
demanding Ortega's resignation.
In an
exclusive interview, Ortega told teleSUR Nicaragua's "extreme
right" and U.S. officials were behind the violent protests: the
same forces he said have been trying to topple the Venezuelan
government of President Nicolas Maduro.
Washington's
Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said the U.S. position
on Nicaragua should remain on the records.
Bolivia
is expected to try to block the meeting on Wednesday, but officials
told Reuters the nine necessary votes to veto the agenda item have
yet to be secured.
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