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He President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, this Thursday crossed out a “mess” UN report that links it with possible “Crimes against humanity”, and said he will send a parallel human rights report to the organization’s secretary general.
“It is a document that is a mess from a technical and scientific point of view, in light of universal human rights, it is an unsustainable mess,” the president exclaimed in a televised address.
The United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela presented on September 16 an exhaustive report of 443 pages, after investigating 223 cases, 48 of them in depth.
The mission president, Marta Valiñas, It said in a statement that “the Mission found reasonable grounds to believe that the Venezuelan authorities and security forces have planned and carried out serious human rights violations since 2014, some of which – including arbitrary executions and the systematic use of torture – constitute crimes against humanity ”.
The mission “is not independent,” said Maduro, but “a commission dependent on the Lima Group, dependent on Mike Pompeo,” the head of diplomacy in the United States, a country that is launching an international campaign to promote his departure from power.
From the Miraflores presidential palace, the president showed a report on human rights in Venezuela received from the attorney general, parallel to the one presented by the UN that is “full of falsehoods”, according to the socialist government.
Maduro instructed his Chancellor Jorge Arreaza send a copy of the “tremendous” report “no later than Monday” to Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres, with whom he held a “very timely” videoconference earlier.
Following Guterres’ “recommendation”, Maduro continued, the president said “to aspire in the coming days” to meet by videoconference with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet.
“I have every spirit (…) to elevate, improve and deepen official cooperation (…) with the office of the High Commissioner,” he said.
In his virtual speech to the UN on Wednesday in the framework of the 75th General Assembly, Maduro made no mention of the report presented by the organization. Instead, he focused his speech on the US sanctions against his government, ensuring that they affect the “stability” of the Caribbean country.
In July, Bachelet presented a report denouncing “arbitrary detentions, violations of due process guarantees” and cases of “torture and forced disappearances”. Caracas called the document “biased.”
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