Venezuelan government requests emergency UN meeting following US attacks.

Caracas.- The Venezuelan Government requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations (UN) Security Council, after the United States bombed several parts of the country, including Caracas.

Through a letter addressed to the president of the Security Council, the Somali ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman, Caracas requested to convene an emergency meeting to discuss the “acts of aggression” of the United States against Venezuela, a missive that was also delivered to the secretary general of the UN, António Guterres.

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Likewise, Venezuela asked the Council to “condemn the aggression” of the United States against the people and Government of Venezuela and to request the “cessation of armed attacks”, as well as to establish the pertinent measures for the US Administration to “answer for the crimes of aggression” committed in Venezuelan territory. Venezuela’s request comes after, in the early hours of this Saturday, “US military forces carried out a series of armed attacks” which the government of Nicolás Maduro described in the statement as “brutal, unjustified and unilateral” and which consisted – he explained – of the “bombing of civilian and military locations” in the city of Caracas and the states of Miranda, Aragua and La Guaira, all in the north of the country. “Additionally, U.S. special forces are carrying out attacks in various parts of the national territory with helicopters and airplanes“, adds the statement. Venezuela underscored that this aggression “flagrantly violates” the UN Charter, which establishes that “all members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.” In a message on the social network Truth Social, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, confirmed today that the U.S. has carried out “a large-scale attack against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolás Maduro, which has been, along with his wife, captured and taken out of the country by air.” Venezuela’s Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, indicated that they do not know the whereabouts of Maduro and his wife.