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STORY: UN / VENEZUELA
TRT: 02:42
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 APRIL 2018, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, UN headquarters
25 APRIL 2018, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Arreaza, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Venezuela:
“The Venezuelan people have a choice to freely change the ship’s course, the course of the nation, towards the right or towards the left. Not like in other countries where the options are just different versions of the right. Some call it social democracy, some call it centre, etc, but in the end, it is all part of the same system.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Arreaza, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Venezuela:
“Go and see the reality of Venezuelan life with your own eyes. You will see how on the 20th, the 20th of May in the evening, how the National Electoral Council will announce the outcome of the elections. And that is the outcome, that is the voice of the Venezuelan people. Whoever is elected – and we hope the President Maduro will be re-elected, but maybe that will not be the case – that will be the constitutional President of Venezuela.”
7. Med shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Arreaza, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Venezuela:
“The Venezuelan people are the ones who can validate the elections. They are the only judge. Sometimes we are impressed by what the President of country, or a spokesperson of some country’s institution, saying that they will not recognize the National Constituent Assembly; that they will not recognize Venezuela’s elections, we should ask based on what competence or faculty another nation other than Venezuela have on its institutions or democracy.”
9. Med shot, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Arreaza, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Venezuela:
“There is an obvious financing, mostly from the United States and its government, but also this and that foundation, or in the name of some old right wing European leader, who finance the Venezuelan opposition in order to overthrow the legitimate and constitutional government of President Maduro. Look, if the Venezuelan people decided on 20 May that the president should be Bertucci or Falcon, then the socialist revolution would become the main opposition party in order to return to power through democratic means. But not by overthrowing a government. There is a lot that journalists who spend so much time on Venezuela could investigate to find out what is the origin of this financing. To the Venezuelan opposition.”
11. Wide shot, end of presser
The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, today (25 Apr) said the Venezuelan people “have a choice to freely change the ship’s course, the course of the nation, towards the right or towards the left.
Speaking to international journalists in New York, Arreaza called on them to “go and see the reality of Venezuelan life with your own eyes.”
He said that on 20 May “the National Electoral Council will announce the outcome of the elections. And that is the outcome, that is the voice of the Venezuelan people.”
The Foreign Minister said the Venezuelan people “are the only judge” on the validity of the elections, and asked “based on what competence or faculty another nation other than Venezuela have on its institutions or democracy.”
Speaking about the opposition parties, he said “there is an obvious financing, mostly from the United States” in order “to overthrow the legitimate and constitutional government of President Maduro.”
Arreaza said that if the Venezuelan people decided Javier Bertucci or Henri Falcon should win the election, “then the socialist revolution would become the main opposition party in order to return to power through democratic means.”
The elections, originally scheduled for 22 April were postponed to the new date of 20 May following a pact between the government and opposition parties.
