Key Highlights
- assault on Venezuela.
- He called on the US leadership to immediately release Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, both currently being held in New York.
- Nebenzia said Russia is particularly appalled by the unprecedented cynicism on the part of Washington, which does not even attempt to conceal the true objectives of its criminal operation, namely the establishment of unlimited control over Venezuela’s natural resources and assertion of its hegemonic ambitions in Latin America.
- “In this way, Washington is generating fresh momentum for neocolonialism and imperialism, which have been repeatedly and decisively repudiated by the peoples of this region and the Global South as a whole,” he said.
- In the current situation, it is extremely important for the entire international community to stand united and definitively reject the methods and instruments of US military foreign policy, which were vividly demonstrated in the case of Venezuela, said the Russian diplomat.
