The narrative used by the United States against Venezuela is completely false

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Statements by Minister Yvan Gil at the CELAC Extraordinary Meeting of Foreign Ministers. teleSUR

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00:00Good morning, Foreign Minister from Venezuela.

00:16We want to welcome this urgent meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Community of Latin American

00:24States to go over an issue that you said at the beginning that calls us, that must call

00:34us to an important reflection and concrete action in this organization in defense of

00:42the zone of peace declared in 2014 by 33 members of this organization and that also has been

00:51reaffirmed in all meetings that came after.

00:56The zone of peace is a mandate that all state members of CELACS have and that invite us to

01:04carry out all necessary actions for its defense and consolidation.

01:11So we see as very opportune this meeting before the events that you were saying at the beginning

01:21of this important conference.

01:28Dear President and colleagues Foreign Ministers and representatives of all the countries, we

01:33must say that the situation that we are experiencing is something unprecedented.

01:39Since the missile crisis in the 60s, when regional peace was put at risk, we had not experienced

01:50something like this.

01:52We are saying that the United States has gathered military assets near the Venezuelan coast.

02:02We are talking about eight military vessels that have onto what we know, what we have seen in

02:13media and in declarations of the spokespersons of the United States, eight vessels with over

02:201,200 missiles on these vessels.

02:23Over 4,000 troops trained that they have announced that they are trained and ready to invade the

02:32sacred land of our homeland, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

02:36But what is even worse, we have seen also several statements from the United States, the presence

02:45in the Caribbean of a nuclear submarine with capabilities to launch nuclear weapons, which violates not only

02:58the zone of peace that I already mentioned, declared in 2014, but that it would also be violating

03:05the Treaty of Latelolco, that since the year 1967, is a treaty, a binding treaty, and a treaty

03:22that since 1971, the U.S. also committed to follow the protocols and respect this treaty.

03:32So I think the main issue of this conference is to preserve the zone of peace, to condemn and demand

03:40the immediate withdrawal of these military assets from our coast and the Caribbean Sea, and reaffirm

03:47their respect to the Treaty of Latelolco and the region as a zone of peace.

03:54I want also to mention that as an excuse for this deployment on our coast, they have used a completely

04:09false narrative.

04:11They have used a narrative pointing to Venezuela and our president, Nicolás Maduro, as leaders of an alleged

04:22drug cartel named Los Soles, the Sons, a cartel that has to do with drug trafficking in this region.

04:32And it's a narrative that has been dismantled by the U.S. own intelligence agencies.

04:44The report of the Department of State of the United States, the report of the United Nations for the

04:53Control of the Control of Drugs and Organized Crime, they have pointed in different occasions that Venezuela

05:02is a territory free of illegal crops.

05:06And this has been kept in time thanks to the struggle of our Bolivar National Armed Forces

05:12and the Bolivar National Police and all the deployment that the national government carries out,

05:19using vast resources and deploying important medias to control those illegal activities.

05:29Also citing this report from the United Nations, we can say, and it's something I want to share with all of you,

05:35that 87% of drug trafficking, of cocaine that comes from the production centers in Colombia

05:47and goes to the United States, 87% uses the Pacific route.

05:54And 8%, as we are seeing those reports, goes through La Guajira, and only 5% tries to go through our national territory.

06:18And of that 5%, we can show figures with pride that 70% is seized thanks to the operations

06:29that the Bolivar Republic of Venezuela carries out.

06:34This is not said by the Bolivar government.

06:37This is reflected in reports by the UN, in reports by the Department of State of the U.S.

06:44that contradicts their own policies and have been pointed out broadly by all communication media.

06:51So we want to communicate that the narrative that they want to employ for the deployment

07:03by the U.S. of these military assets is a narrative completely false.

07:09It's necessary that this organization, our community of Latin American and Caribbean states,

07:16comes out and condemns and demands the immediate withdrawal of these assets.

07:28And that's why we also support the statement that the pro-temporary presidency of Colombia has presented.

07:34I also want to say that in the name of the Bolivarian Alliance of our Peoples of America,

07:39Al Batisipi, that groups 10 member countries of this organization has also demanded the same consequence

07:49with what we have said.

07:52Conclusion, dear President, we support all actions that the Colombian Republic has proposed in their character of pro-temporary president,

08:07and we call on all the community, the 33 member countries, to take a step in defense of the zone as an area of peace.

08:20So any war conflict against Venezuela, using a false pretext as it is drug trafficking,

08:28when we have shown important achievements in this aspect, would signify truly a complete destabilization of the entire region.

08:44We have been accepted to carry out the defense of the homeland as much as possible.

08:50We have been accepted to carry out the defense of the homeland as much as possible.

09:07We have been accepted to carry out the defense of the homeland as mandated by our Constitution.

09:15Not a single aggression will be able to stop our progress, nor our plans for economic growth and prosperity for our people.

09:25And we, as you were able to see on different communication media, we are perfectly aligned.

09:34The Venezuelan people is united.

09:38Four and a half million militia men and women have enlisted for defense of our territory,

09:46for the defense of our sovereignty, and for the defense of the values,

09:51which are the sacred values that are on the UN Charter, the right to self-determination, sovereignty.

09:59And our President, Commandant-in-Chief of the Vodabaya National Armed Forces,

10:03has been very clear in providing instructions and concrete orders to achieve this.

10:09So, once again, we call on CELAC and all the regional actors to take on our responsibility to defend this zone of peace,

10:22the defense of the Treaty of Tlatelolco, and to put an end of this deployment,

10:31which is only reason is to threaten a sovereign people, a free people, a Bolivarian people, as it is the Venezuelan people.

10:41Once again, dear ministers and colleagues, we welcome the actions of President Gustavo Petro as pro-temperate president.

10:52And we hope that from this meeting, we can come out with the absolute rejection.

11:01...of amenazar nuestras naciones con medios nucleares, con medios militares, con barcos de guerra,

11:08que son ajenos a nuestra voluntad de zona de paz. Muchas gracias.

11:15Gracias, Ministro.

11:18Gracias.

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