[News] UN Human Rights Council Adopts Resolution Rejecting US Sanctions Against Venezuela and Others

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https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14585


  UN Human Rights Council Adopts Resolution Rejecting US Sanctions

By TeleSur English - July 15, 2019
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The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution 
<https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/G19/207/53/PDF/G1920753.pdf?OpenElement> condemning 
the imposition of sanctions by the United States and its allies against 
Venezuela and other member states on Saturday.

The draft resolution was approved with 28 votes in favor, 14 against and 
five abstentions, and was presented by Venezuela and Palestine on behalf 
of the Movement of Non-aligned Countries (NAM) during the 41st session 
ofthe Council.

“I am grateful for the overwhelming support of the member states of the 
UN Human Rights Council for the resolution presented by the presidency 
of NAM in favor of Venezuela. A victory that expands international 
cooperation and rejects imperial sanctions,” Venezuelan President 
Nicolas Maduro tweeted Sunday.

The document also reaffirms the “inalienable right” of every country “to 
choose freely and develop, in accordance with the sovereign will of its 
people, its own political, social, economic and cultural systems, 
without interference from any other State or non-State actor."

    Venezuela, desde la Presidencia del @MNOAL_NAM
    <https://twitter.com/MNOAL_NAM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> presentó una
    resolución para profundizar la Cooperación Internacional y rechazar
    las Medidas Coercitivas Unilaterales (Sanciones) en el Consejo de
    DDHH/ONU. La Resolución fue aprobada con amplio respaldo de los
    Estados miembros. pic.twitter.com/ZNZMXbTUwc <https://t.co/ZNZMXbTUwc>

    — Jorge Arreaza M (@jaarreaza) July 14, 2019
    <https://twitter.com/jaarreaza/status/1150455721550651399?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

"Venezuela, as president of the NAM, presented a resolution to deepen 
international cooperation and reject unilateral coercive measures 
(sanctions) in the UN Human Rights Council, which was approved with 
large support from its member states," tweeted Venezuela's Foreign 
Minister Jorge Arreaza.

In May, the U.N’s special rapporteur on the negative impact of 
sanctions, Idriss Jazairy, expressed that the use of economic sanctions 
against Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran for political purposes violates human 
rights and international law.

Yet, this latest resolution comes at a key moment for Venezuela as its 
government has systematically rejected the report presented by the UN's 
High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet. In it, Bachelet 
omits major social policies of Maduro’s administration and fails to 
mention the simultaneous economic attacks against the country by the 
U.S. government.

Since 2017, the White House has imposed 150 sanctions on individuals and 
entities of Venezuela, which, as the U.N. resolution reads, “hinder the 
well-being of the population of the affected countries and create 
obstacles to the full realization of their human rights.”

Just in the Latin American country, sanctions have resulted in the 
direct deaths of over 40,000 citizens due to lack of food and medicine, 
as well as a loss of around US$116 billion for Venezuela, according 
<https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-U.N.-Report-Omits-Social-Programs-U.S.-Sanctions-20190712-0016.html>to 
the country’s Vice President of Planning Ricardo Menendez as well as a 
recent independent report <https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14446> from 
the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

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