HRC57 - Human Rights in Venezuela resolution L.8 - 11 October 2024
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HRC57 - Human Rights in Venezuela: adoption of resolution L.8 - 11 October 2024

Speakers:

- Video-1: Carlos Mario Foradori,  Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations Office at Geneva 
- Video-2: Alexander Gabriel Yánez Deleuze,  Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the United Nations Office at Geneva 
- Video-3: Vote and results on board of resolution L.8 (23 YES, 6 NO and 18 abstentions)

Vote at the Human Rights Council 57th session and adoption of resolution L.8 to extend for a period of two years the mandate of the independent international fact-finding mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

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thank you very much. President
history is ours and it is made by the people. And this is a quote from Salvador
Allende,
Venezuela.
Just like the majority of members of this council does not
recognise the mandates which are imposed
on countries under selective politicised,
uh, criterion.
Under double standards,
some countries insist on turning this council
into an instrument of coercion and black mail
into a sort of inquisition tribunal against the
peoples and governments of the global South.
In
this way,
the council is destined to suffer the same
fate as the now extinct Human Rights Commission
president.
In 2019, the United States regime,
the biggest violator of human rights in history as well as the
European Union and the extinct Lima Group,
put forward this resolution in order to
apply what they called maximum pressure on Venezuela
through the manipulation of the instruments and purposes of this council.
What they sought to do was imposed a failed doctrine of regime change
that began by recognising a fantasying government sworn in in a public square,
not elected by any one without any palia
support,
which was not required to be accountable but
which nevertheless justified the overthrowing of a popular government
that the Washington regime did not like. President.
94 per cent of the co sponsors of this resolution
recognised this fantasy entering government
without any accountability and without any election being held,
is there in fact any doubt about the extent of politicisation of this document?
Is there still any doubt that its objective is not human rights?
I would urge you to review the
list of countries that support this resolution where you will in fact find the names
of the main ones responsible for invasions and coup d'etat that occurred in Chile,
Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Grenada, Panama, Vietnam, Afghanistan,
Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon
and very many more.
Who was it who planned and carried out these invasions?
Do they really care about human rights?
If that is indeed so, why then?
The silence and complicity about the genocide in Palestine,
Members of council. Given this track
record,
can Western countries truly give moral and human
rights lessons to countries of the global South
president?
The budget foreseen for the two terms of the mandate in this resolution is $8.9
million.
This being so this document interfering document represents a daily
expenditure of more than $12,000 per day for two years.
How can we allow this council to
ensure that there is such wasted on politicised mandates that don't
produce any significant advancements in terms of human rights co operation?
We
believe that
we do not recognise imposed resolutions and voting against this political
document denounces historic injustice against people of the global South.
Thank you, President. Thank you.