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STORY: UN / ARREAZA VENEZUELA
TRT: 3:42
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 14 FEBRUARY 2019, NEW YORK CITY
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UNHQ exterior
14 FEBRUARY 2019, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Venezuelan Foreign Minister with ambassadors at stakeout
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Venezuela:
“We all have the right to live without the threat of use of force, and without the application of illegal coercive unilateral measures. In the next few days, we will begin a series of actions, as a group, to raise awareness around the dangers that our peoples currently face, particularly the people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. We call upon all the Member States of the United Nations to join us in defending international law as the only guarantor of humanity’s peaceful coexistence.”
4. Wide shot, Venezuelan Foreign Minister with ambassadors at stakeout
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Venezuela:
“This is not only for the defence of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and its people at this moment. This is the current situation. It’s about the defence of the principles of international law, of the rights of our peoples to live in peace, without interference, without interventions, without the threat of the use of force. We will work in a collective manner.”
6. Wide shot, Venezuelan Foreign Minister with ambassadors at stakeout
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Venezuela:
“I must again ask the media, the agencies, not to get involved with this show, this spectacle, that the US is organizing. The US has blocked our economy. The cost of this blockade is over 30 billion dollars, and they are sending this so-called humanitarian aid for 20 million dollars? So, what is this? I’m choking you. I’m killing you. And then I’m giving you a cookie?
8. Wide shot, Venezuelan Foreign Minister with ambassadors at stakeout
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Venezuela:
“You know, in Venezuela there is only one government, the government of President Maduro. So, no one can give deadlines, especially this man who was self-proclaimed; or who self-proclaimed himself as president of Venezuela in the middle of a street in a demonstration without any constitutional framework to support it, without any formality. And he has control of nothing. He doesn’t have effective control of a police patrol in Venezuela. So, whatever he says is absolutely absurd.”
10. Wide shot, Venezuelan Foreign Minister with ambassadors at stakeout
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Venezuela:
“The loyalty of our armed forces has already been [proven]. The momentum of the coup that the government of the United States was promoting is over. It didn’t happen. You have to rethink your strategy, because Venezuela is a sovereign country. We have sovereign institutions. We have sovereign and very aware armed forces, and we are going to protect our people [despite] the sanctions.”
12. Wide shot, Venezuelan Foreign Minister with ambassadors at stakeout
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Venezuela:
“This is very dangerous. The United States is playing a new game of psychological warfare, and also trying to besiege and corner us.”
14. Med shot, ambassadors
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Venezuela:
“They should know that Venezuela is a sovereign country, and that we will protect every millimetre of the Venezuelan territory, its continental territorial space, its maritime space, its airspace. We will respond to any situation in a proportional manner to any type of attack against our country.”
16. Wide shot, Venezuelan Foreign Minister with ambassadors at stakeout
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza announced the formation of a new group at the United Nations to defend the “principles of international law” and the rights of peoples to “live in peace, without interference, without interventions, without the threat of the use of force.”
Addressing reporters in New York today (14 Feb), Arreaza said the group would coordinate action to defend the UN Charter. This includes: respect for the principles of equal rights of peoples, respect for the sovereign equality of Member States, settling disputes through peaceful means as to never threaten international peace and security, refraining from the threat to use force against any state, respect for the territorial integrity and political independence of states, and non-intervention in the domestic affairs of states.
SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Venezuela:
“We all have the right to live without the threat of use of force, and without the application of illegal coercive unilateral measures. In the next few days, we will begin a series of actions, as a group, to raise awareness around the dangers that our peoples currently face, particularly the people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. We call upon all the Member States of the United Nations to join us in defending international law as the only guarantor of humanity’s peaceful coexistence.”
The Foreign Minister said the group was not only aimed at defending Venezuela. He said it would work in a collective manner in all UN bodies, including the Security Council and the General Assembly, to defend the rights of its peoples.
Arreaza reiterated his call on the media “not to get involved with this show, this spectacle, that the US is organizing” on humanitarian aid to his country. He said the US has blocked the Venezuelan economy costing the country over 30 billion USD and now wants to provide 20 million in “so-called humanitarian aid.” He asked reporters, “So, what is this? I’m choking you. I’m killing you. And then I’m giving you a cookie?”
The Venezuelan Foreign Minister said the US was looking for loyalty from the Venezuelan armed forces, but their loyalty “has already been [proven].” He added that the “momentum of the coup that the government of the United States was promoting is over” and the US now had to rethink its strategy.
Asked about reported movements of US special forces in several Caribbean islands, Arreaza said these events were “dangerous” adding that the US was “playing a new game of psychological warfare, and also trying to besiege and corner” his country.
He stressed that his government would “protect every millimetre of the Venezuelan territory” and would respond to “any situation in a proportional manner to any type of attack against” his country.
In response to a question on the 23 February deadline for humanitarian aid to enter the country given by opposition leader Juan Guiadó, the Foreign Minister said there was only one government in Venezuela, and as such, “no one can give deadlines, especially this man who was self-proclaimed; or who self-proclaimed himself as president of Venezuela in the middle of a street in a demonstration without any constitutional framework to support it.” He said Guiadó “doesn’t have effective control of a police patrol in Venezuela; so, whatever he says is absolutely absurd.”
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