Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro warned UN Secretary-General António Guterres in a telephone conversation about escalating threats to regional peace in Latin America, noted in a government statement from the Bolivarian Republic, published on the Telegram channel of Foreign Minister Iván Gil Pinto, APA reports.
"The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, held a telephone conversation today with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, to warn of the escalating threats against Venezuela and their serious consequences for regional peace," a government statement said. It added that during the conversation, the head of state "condemned recent public statements by US President Donald Trump on social media, in which the American leader claimed that 'Venezuela's oil, natural resources, and territory belong to him.'"
Maduro noted that "colonialist rhetoric... must be categorically rejected by the United Nations system, as it poses a direct threat to sovereignty, international law, and peace." He cited the "political, diplomatic, and economic siege of Venezuela," the intensification of military threats, acts of piracy, and the attack on a tanker carrying Venezuelan oil. The president characterized these actions as "barbaric diplomacy" and reaffirmed Venezuela's readiness to "defend honorable diplomacy, dialogue, and peace."
António Guterres, for his part, expressed solidarity with the Venezuelan people and emphasized the need to avoid escalation and confrontation. He noted that "armed conflict in the region is unjustifiable and would have serious consequences for regional stability and the zone of peace in Latin America and the Caribbean."
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