Venezuela: Washington’s hijacking of President Nicolas Maduro’s plane is an act of piracy

Caracas, (ST) – Venezuela strongly condemned the US authorities’ confiscation of a plane used by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in the Dominican Republic, considering this act as an act of piracy.

“The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela denounces before the international community that once again, the authorities of the United States of America have illegally confiscated in a criminal reoccurrence which cannot be described as anything other than piracy,” reads the document.

The FM says the US commits these acts by justifying themselves in the coercive measures that unilaterally and illegally, they impose around the world.

Venezuelan government warns that the action reveals that no state and no constitutional government is safe from illegal actions that ignore international law.

Venezuela also accuses the US of using its economic and military power to intimidate and pressure states such as the Dominican Republic, where the plane was held, to be accomplices in their criminal acts.

“This is an example of the so-called “rule-based order”, which, in defiance of international law, seeks to establish the law of the strongest, create rules that suit its interests and execute them with complete impunity,” it says the protest statement.

Source: TELSUR

Edited by: Raghda Sawas