{"id":496518,"date":"2026-01-03T07:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/venezuelan-government-requests-emergency-un-meeting-following-us-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T07:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:32:44","slug":"venezuelan-government-requests-emergency-un-meeting-following-us-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/venezuelan-government-requests-emergency-un-meeting-following-us-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan government requests emergency UN meeting following US attacks."},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Caracas.- <\/strong>The Venezuelan Government requested an emergency meeting of the <strong>United Nations (UN) Security Council, <\/strong>after the United States bombed several parts of the country, including Caracas.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through a letter addressed to the president of the <strong>Security Council, the Somali ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman, Caracas<\/strong> requested to convene an emergency meeting to discuss the &#8220;acts of aggression&#8221; of the United States against Venezuela, a missive that was also delivered to the secretary general of the <strong>UN, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/Marco Rubio asegura que Maduro se enfrentara a la justicia y no habr\u00e1 m\u00e1s ataques en Venezuela\">http:\/\/Marco Rubio asegura que Maduro se enfrentara a la justicia y no habr\u00e1 m\u00e1s ataques en Venezuela<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nLikewise, Venezuela asked the Council to &#8220;condemn the aggression&#8221; of the United States against the people and Government of Venezuela and to request the &#8220;cessation of armed attacks&#8221;, as well as to establish the pertinent measures for the US Administration to &#8220;answer for the crimes of aggression&#8221; committed in Venezuelan territory.\n\nVenezuela&#8217;s request comes after, in the early hours of this Saturday, &#8220;US military forces carried out a series of armed attacks&#8221; which the government of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro described in the statement as &#8220;brutal, unjustified and unilateral&#8221; and which consisted &#8211; he explained &#8211; of the &#8220;bombing of civilian and military locations&#8221; in the city of Caracas and the states of Miranda, Aragua and La Guaira, all in the north of the country.\n\n<strong>&#8220;Additionally, U.S. special forces are carrying out attacks in various parts of the national territory with helicopters and airplanes<\/strong>&#8220;, adds the statement.\n\nVenezuela underscored that this aggression &#8220;flagrantly violates&#8221; the UN Charter, which establishes that &#8220;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.&#8221;\n\nIn 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 &#8220;a large-scale attack against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, which has been, along with his wife, captured and taken out of the country by air.&#8221;\n\nVenezuela&#8217;s Vice President, Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, indicated that they do not know the whereabouts of Maduro and his wife.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;acts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":496520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[15851,40230,110],"class_list":["post-496518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25am","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/6958f81445cab.r_d.450-338-4978.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Arelis Suero","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cropped-cropped-Diseno-sin-titulo-41-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/6958f81445cab.r_d.450-338-4978.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}