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STORY: UN / VENEZUELA ARREAZA PRESSER
TRT: 02:22
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 APRIL 2019, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
25 APRIL 2019, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Venezuela’s Foreign Minister at the press conference dais
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela:
“It is time to launch a campaign, a campaign to denounce so that the world will know the devastating effects of the unilateral, illegal, and arbitrary blockade that the government of the United States has imposed on Venezuela.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela:
“The Security Council did not make any decision to sanction Venezuela, or have they? None. So, how can the United States say they sanction, and actually sanction our country with an unjust blockade without following the procedures established in this Charter, which we should all respect. Because the United States is a member of the United Nations or are they not?”
7. Med shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela:
“Do you know the cost of paying the salaries of our staff at the United Nations, or in Canada, or in Europe? We owe them five of six months of salary. Is it that we don’t have the money? Yes, we do. But it is blocked. And a correspondent bank kept the money. From one day to the next they take your money and they do not return it.”
9. Med shot, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela:
“They arrived on a plane specifically to train our people on how to use their equipment, their helicopters, their weapon systems, with more precision. And they are in Venezuela, but, my god, that is not a contingent as they say. We have a great alliance with Russia, but these days the United States is conducting military exercises with Venezuela’s neighbouring countries. And they did so recently in the Colombian Caribbean, they did it in the Amazon. How many bases does the United States have in Latin America? How many bases do they have in Colombia? How many bases do they have around the world? How many clandestine torture centres does the CIA have around the world? How many countries do they control based on the presence of US military bases? How can they even question that Venezuela could have military relations with another country?”
11. Wide shot, end of presser
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, today (25 Apr) said, it was “time to launch a campaign” to denounce “the devastating effects of the unilateral, illegal, and arbitrary blockade that the government of the United States has imposed on Venezuela.”
Speaking to reporters in New York, Arreaza said, “the Security Council did not make any decision to sanction Venezuela, or have they? None. So, how can the United States say they sanction, and actually sanction our country with an unjust blockade without following the procedures established in this Charter, which we should all respect. Because the United States is a member of the United Nations or are they not?”
The Venezuelan Foreign Minister explained the difficulties the government is having in complying with their obligations because of the sanctions.
He said, “do you know the cost of paying the salaries of our staff at the United Nations, or in Canada, or in Europe? We owe them five of six months of salary. Is it that we don’t have the money? Yes, we do. But it is blocked. And a correspondent bank kept the money. From one day to the next they take your money and they do not return it.”
Regarding the arrival of a Russian military plane in Caracas, Arreaza said, “they arrived on a plane specifically to train our people on how to use their equipment, their helicopters, their weapon systems, with more precision. And they are in Venezuela, but, my god, that is not a contingent as they say.”
He said Venezuela has “a great alliance with Russia,” but noted that “these days the United States is conducting military exercises with Venezuela’s neighbouring countries. And they did so recently in the Colombian Caribbean, they did it in the Amazon.”
Arreaza asked “how many bases does the United States have in Latin America? How many bases do they have in Colombia? How many bases do they have around the world? How many clandestine torture centres does the CIA have around the world? How many countries do they control based on the presence of US military bases? How can they even question that Venezuela could have military relations with another country?”
