Venezuela, Bolivia Reiterates Rejection of Any Military Action against Syria

CARACAS- Venezuela and Bolivia have reiterated their rejection of any US aggression against Syria.

President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela and his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales expressed their worry over the US claims about the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons, stressing that the claims aim at justifying a military intervention in Syria.  

Morales: Obama can invade any country for US energy needs

In the same context, the Bolivian President Evo Morales has said that Obama should face an international trial with human rights watchdogs among the judges.

 Upon his arrival in Caracas coming from New York where he took part in the session of the UN General Assembly, Morales accused his US counterpart of instigating conflicts in the Middle East to make the region more volatile and to increase the US’s grip on the natural resources it abounds in, According to RT website,

He gave Libya as an example of a country where “they arranged for the President to be killed, and they usurped Libya’s oil.”

“Now they are funding the rebels that fight against presidents who don’t support capitalism or imperialism,” Morales told Eva Golinger of RT’s Spanish sister channel, Actualidad. “And where a coup d’état is impossible, they seek to divide the people in order to weaken the nation –a provocation designed to trigger an intervention by peacekeeping forces, NATO, the UN Security Council. But the intervention itself is meant to get hold of oil resources and gain geopolitical control, rather than enforce respect for human rights.”

The US also operates in the same imperialist way outside the Middle East, Morales argued. At the General Assembly Obama said that the US “is prepared to use all elements of our power, including military force, to secure these core interests” in the Middle East. Among the core interests, he mentioned “the free flow of energy from the region to the world.” Morales said that Obama’s statement should make any country possessing natural resources worried.

 “I think that statement poses a threat to all countries that have energy sources, especially gas and oil,” Morales said. “But mostly those countries that sell gas and oil to the US. It is a direct threat. I am planning to meet with President Maduro and analyze the issue. I understand that this is a direct threat to Venezuela, because in order to secure his country’s energy needs, Obama can invade any country.”

BRICS: OPCW Must Play Key Role in Resolving Syria Chemicals Issue        

The BRICS group of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa announced that the Organization for the prohibition of the Chemical Weapons (OPCW) must play a key role in resolving Syria chemicals issue, according to Russia Today.

The group held a meeting on the sidelines of the General Assembly of the United Nations.

“We are impatiently waiting for the Resolutions of the OPCW and the UNSC to support the Russian-American accords,” BRICS statement read.

BRICS foreign ministers also called on an immediate ceasefire in Syria, noting a new chance for a peaceful solution for the Syrian crisis.

H.Mustafa