Venezuelan Foreign Minister Praises Victory Of Peace After US Resolution Failure At UNSC

Faizan Hashmi Published March 01, 2019 | 07:21 AM

Peace and preservation of national sovereignty have won at the UN Security Council session, dedicated to the Venezuelan crisis, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said, as the US-drafted UNSC resolution, calling for new elections in the Latin American country, got vetoed

BUENOS AIRES (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 01st March, 2019) Peace and preservation of national sovereignty have won at the UN Security Council session, dedicated to the Venezuelan crisis, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said, as the US-drafted UNSC resolution, calling for new elections in the Latin American country, got vetoed.

On Thursday, Russia and China vetoed the US-sponsored draft. South Africa voted against the resolution, too, three countries abstained, while nine other states supported it. Ahead of the vote, Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said that the US draft had "no chance" of being adopted.

"Today, peace, the protection of sovereignty and self-determination of peoples won in the Security Council.

Multilateralism will not fall to the feet of the United States (and countries following them) in order to attack the free people of Venezuela," Arreaza wrote on Twitter.

However, also on Thursday, the United Nations Security Council rejected a draft resolution put forward by Russia to reaffirm the right of President Nicolas Maduro's government to coordinate aid deliveries to the Latin American country, too. Four countries voted in favor of the resolution, while four others abstained and seven other council members rejected it.