High Commission of the United Nations for human rights announced that the world community must clearly say that the American intervention in Venezuela it is a violation of international law that makes the world less safe.
The office of that commissariat stated that it is clear that the US operation undermines the fundamental principle of international law that states "may not threaten or use force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any other state."
"The international community must come together and insist unanimously on this," the spokeswoman for the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani, told reporters, Reuters reports.
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"Far from defending human rights, military intervention damages the architecture of international security and makes every country less safe," she said.
"It sends a signal that the powerful can do whatever they want," she added and emphasized that the future of Venezuela can only be determined by the citizens of that country, and that instability and further militarization will only worsen the human rights situation.
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