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The Supreme Court of Justice (STJ) of Venezuela today condemned, “for lack of foundation”, the recent UN report that linked the president of the country and the interior and defense ministers with serious crimes committed by the security forces.
The report) violates the principles of international law expressed in respect for sovereignty and the right to self-determination of peoples, non-interference in internal affairs and territorial integrity, and also violates the main pillars of multilateralism, such as genuine dialogue and cooperation. “says a statement from the STJ.
Investigators from an international UN mission on Wednesday accused Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his Interior and Defense ministers of being involved in serious crimes by the country’s security forces.
The investigative team, which issued its first report but did not travel to Venezuela, claimed to have detected signs of crimes against humanity and indicated that they had “good reason to believe that the President” and those ministers “ordered or contributed to ordering the crimes committed. ”Said in a statement the Portuguese lawyer Marta Valiñas, who heads the team of investigators.
Some of these crimes, “including arbitrary killings and the systematic use of torture, fall within the realm of crimes against humanity,” he said.
In the statement released today, the STJ considers that the report was “prepared in a unilateral and biased manner, evidencing a frank manipulation and misuse of the international human rights system” by the UN, and that the work of the Council of Human Rights was underestimated. Rights. Human beings from that body, “with the purpose of destroying the true image of the human rights guarantees promoted by the Government of Venezuela.”
The document, read by the president of the STJ, Maikel Moreno, also indicates that the report intends to replace “the protocols agreed” with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, “on such sensitive issues”, becoming An independent mission that prepared it “for a new mechanism of aggression that aims to outline and make known a series of biased and unilateral assessments of the human rights situation” in the country.
“[O relatório] It lacks essential protocols for the verification and consolidation of the information obtained, since it was not carried out in the territory of Venezuela and is based on testimonies of alleged victims and witnesses promoted anonymously and unilaterally, in violation of the elementary principle of transparency. ” He says.
The president of the STJ says that at the invitation of Nicolás Maduro, a commission led by Michelle Bachelet has been working ‘on the ground’ and in coordination with the Venezuelan authorities to monitor and verify the local human rights situation.
“We regret that these practices, far from rationality and good faith (…) serve as instruments to try to obstruct and destroy the dialogue processes established between the Government and the opposition for the peaceful and democratic resolution of conflicts,” says Maikel. Dark skinned.
For the STJ, “it is evident that such actions are promoted by external enemies of Venezuela who, with double standards, seek to question the application and development of human rights in the country, hiding the serious social crisis and the erosion of these rights in their own territories “. “.
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