Natasha Niebieskikwiat
10/06/2020 - 9:10
Clarín.com
Politics
The Government abstained this Tuesday from approving a resolution before the United Nations Human Rights Council that considers that "there is progress" in Venezuela.
And when presenting his position to the plenary session, which met in Geneva, the Argentine ambassador,
Federico Villegas Beltrán,
called on the Nicolás Maduro regime to implement the recommendations of High Commissioner Michele Bachelet, which accounts for thousands of murders. , torture and other human rights violations in the Caribbean country.
In addition, as
Clarín
anticipated,
the Government
will vote in favor of the resolution that condemns human rights violations
in Venezuela and that extends the mandate of the UN expert mission that investigates crimes against humanity by the regime.
In his speech, Villegas Beltrán said that beyond the "positive results in the cooperation achieved with the High Commissioner this Tuesday by the Venezuelan authorities, he
presents an insufficient recognition of their responsibility
for the human rights situation in their territory, reflected in the oral report of the High Commissioner last September 25 ".
In addition, the ambassador added that Argentina urged "the Venezuelan Government to cooperate fully with all the mechanisms of the Council and
to implement the recommendations made by the High Commissioner
in her reports as well as with her call for prompt, exhaustive, independent and impartial information and transparent on the allegations of human rights violations that bring the perpetrators to justice and guarantee adequate reparation to the victims. Therefore, Argentina will vote in abstain from this bill. "
With this recognition, the Government raised a position that
causes internal problems with the toughest sector of Kirchnerism
, allied with Chavismo and that criticizes the claims and condemnations of the Maduro regime.
That was the center of the problem for the Argentine ambassador to the OAS, Daniel Raimundi, who last week asked "not to stigmatize" the regime in Caracas.
This weekend, after a conversation between President Alberto Fernández and Foreign Minister Felipe Solá, Argentina anticipated the position.
Thus, at the beginning of the session at the UN, the Government abstained in the resolution that was approved by 14 of 47 votes in the Human Rights Council.
It is a resolution presented by Iran, Syria, Turkey and Venezuela.
It considers that there was "progress" in Venezuela and calls for continued cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner.
