{"id":4100,"date":"2026-01-06T17:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jeune-independant.net\/en\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2026-01-07T18:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:15:16","slug":"emergency-meeting-of-the-security-council-russia-calls-on-the-united-states-to-free-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeune-independant.net\/en\/2026\/01\/06\/emergency-meeting-of-the-security-council-russia-calls-on-the-united-states-to-free-maduro\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency meeting of the Security Council: Russia calls on the United States to free Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Russian representative castigated the blatant American \u201caggression\u201d against Venezuela, joining China in calling for the release of the presidential couple whom the United States claims to be holding on the basis of \u201cirrefutable evidence of their crimes\u201d. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council opened on 5 January in New York to examine what the organization describes as the \u201cextradition\u201d of Venezuelan president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro by the United States. The discussions focus on the shockwave triggered by the American action, which the UN Secretary\u2011General has described as a \u201cdangerous precedent\u201d both in the region and globally. According to the UN, the fundamental principles of international law, sovereignty and the authority of the Council to respond to sudden escalations liable to destabilize the region are at stake.<\/strong><br \/>\n\u200b<\/p>\n<p>Russia calls Maduro\u2019s capture an \u201cact of banditry\u201d<br \/>\nIn his address, the representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, stated that the \u201cindistinct murmurs and attempts to evade a harsh assessment by those who, in other situations, vehemently demanded that others respect the UN Charter, now seem particularly hypocritical and inappropriate\u201d. He called for an end to \u201cdouble standards\u201d and urged members not to \u201cjustify such a flagrant act of aggression for fear of angering the American world policeman seeking to be reborn\u201d. The Russian representative also described the American actions to seize Maduro as \u201can act of banditry against the Venezuelan leader, which caused several dozen deaths among Venezuelan and Cuban citizens\u201d, and as \u201cthe sign of a return to an era of arbitrariness, American domination by force, chaos and lawlessness, from which dozens of States in various regions of the world continue to suffer\u201d. \u201cThere is no justification, and there can be none, for the cynical crime committed by the United States in Caracas,\u201d he insisted, strongly condemning what he called \u201can act of armed aggression by the United States against Venezuela, carried out in violation of all norms of international law\u201d. Vassily Nebenzia called on the US authorities to \u201cimmediately free the legitimately elected president of an independent State and his wife\u201d, urging Americans to \u201cconsult their own Constitution, whose first words are: \u2018We the People of the United States\u2019, and to begin truly recognizing the sovereignty of other States, rather than overthrowing undesirable regimes\u201d.<br \/>\n\u200b<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s deep indignation<br \/>\nChina\u2019s representative to the Security Council, Fu Cong, expressed his country\u2019s \u201cdeep indignation\u201d and \u201cstrongly condemned the unilateral actions of the United States\u201d. China also called \u201cfor the immediate cessation of attacks on the security of other States, the abandonment of attempts at regime change in Venezuela, and a return to a political solution based on dialogue and negotiation\u201d, urging the United States \u201cto guarantee the safety of President Maduro and his wife and to proceed without delay with their release\u201d.<br \/>\n\u200b<\/p>\n<p>United States: \u201cWe are not at war with Venezuela or its people\u201d<br \/>\nIn his address to the UN Security Council, the US representative, Michael G. Waltz, stated that his country had \u201csuccessfully carried out a surgical law\u2011enforcement operation, facilitated by the US military, against two indicted individuals who were attempting to evade American justice: narcoterrorist Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and Cilia Flores\u201d. He also accused the Venezuelan president \u201cof attacks against the American people, of destabilizing the Western Hemisphere and of the illegitimate repression of the Venezuelan people\u201d, stressing that the United States is not \u201cat war with Venezuela or its people. We are not occupying the country. This is a law\u2011enforcement operation.\u201d According to Michael G. Waltz, the Venezuelan presidential couple was transferred to the United States \u201cto answer for their crimes\u201d, with Nicol\u00e1s Maduro \u201cindicted by a grand jury in the Southern District of New York\u201d and facing \u201cvery serious criminal charges for his involvement in a vast conspiracy of narcoterrorism, cocaine and other drug trafficking, as well as international arms trafficking\u201d. He referred to \u201cirrefutable evidence of his crimes\u201d, which, he said, will be presented publicly before the US courts.<br \/>\n\u200b<\/p>\n<p>Antonio Guterres \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d<br \/>\nThe UN Deputy Secretary\u2011General, speaking on behalf of Antonio Guterres \u2014 absent from the meeting \u2014 conveyed his \u201cdeep concern\u201d over \u201cthe possible escalation of instability in the country, the potential impact on the region, and the precedent this could set for relations between States\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian representative castigated the blatant American \u201caggression\u201d against Venezuela, joining China in calling for the release of the presidential couple whom the United States claims to be holding on the basis of \u201cirrefutable evidence of their crimes\u201d. 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