UN Security Council members urge deescalation of tensions in Venezuela

The UN Security Council on Tuesday held an emergency meeting on the situation in Venezuela, at which the overwhelming majority of Security Council members called for respect for the UN Charter and restraint to avoid further escalation.



Samuel Moncada Acosta, Venezuela's permanent representative to the United Nations, warned that the U.S. ambition does not stop at Venezuela.



"The ambition is continental. The U.S. government has expressed this in its National Security Strategy, which states that the future of the continent belongs to it, with the enactment of the Monroe Doctrine in the 21st century now aggravated by the Trump Corollary," he said at the meeting requested by Venezuela.



"The United States, which was an indispensable country in the construction of the United Nations and in the drafting of its founding charter, has today become an actor that seeks to impose itself on the fundamental rights of all states in the Western Hemisphere," he said. "Today, it has become a state that threatens international law and peace and security."