Just
hours after returning from meetings at the United Nations in New
York, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza sat down for a one on
one interview with the GrayZone Project’s Anya Parampil. The
two discussed Arreaza’s effort to reaffirm international support
for the concept of state sovereignty amid the Trump Administration’s
effort to overthrow the democratically elected government of
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
While in
New York, Arreaza announced the formation of what he described as “an
important group” of UN members states which are “concerned
over the need to maintain respect for the principles”
guaranteed by the international body’s founding charter, such as
territorial integrity, self-determination, and sovereignty.
Arreaza
explained that the idea to create this coalition was conceived in New
York.
“When
I arrived on Monday, I went to the reception for the 40th anniversary
of the [Iranian] Islamic Revolution, and then several ambassadors
gathered, and they came up with the idea— and I said we agree,”
Arreaza told the Grayzone. “One of them said if we let
this happen to Venezuela, who’s next? So we can’t let that
happen.”
These
dignitaries included Syria’s UN envoy Bashar Jafaari, the Grayzone
later confirmed. Syria’s involvement in forming the alliance is
significant because it underscores the terrifying reality many
Venezuelans fear looms on the horizon: a catastrophic Syria-style
regime-change war led by Washington.
The
Arreaza-led initiative to refocus dialogue at the UN around the
organization’s foundational treaty is an attempt to preserve
Venezuela’s sovereignty before the battle reaches a bloody stage.
“Syria
is a big lesson for all, that’s why this group in the UN is being
created,” Arreaza said. “They prevailed. But how many
people died? How many cities were destroyed? It was a bloodshed all
over— so we don’t want that to happen, not in Venezuela, of
course not in Nicaragua, Cuba— that this man Bolton has said are
‘The Troika of [Tyranny]’”.
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