{"id":58865,"date":"2019-04-11T11:13:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T11:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=58865"},"modified":"2019-04-11T11:13:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T11:13:27","slug":"us-wants-un-to-revoke-credentials-of-maduros-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/us-wants-un-to-revoke-credentials-of-maduros-government\/","title":{"rendered":"US wants UN to revoke credentials of Maduro\u2019s government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>US Vice  President Mike Pence called on the United Nations on Wednesday to  revoke the UN credentials of Venezuelan President Nicolas <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maduro\u2019s\n government and recognize opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country\u2019s\n legitimate leader.He said the United States had drafted a UN resolution\n and called on all states to support it.\u201cThe time has come for the \nUnited Nations to recognize interim president Juan Guaido as the \nlegitimate president of Venezuela and seat his representative in this \nbody,\u201d Pence told the UN Security Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diplomats said it is \nunlikely Washington will get the support needed to adopt such a measure \nin the 193-member U.N. General Assembly. The United States and Russia \nboth failed in rival bids to get the 15-member Security Council to adopt\n resolutions on Venezuela in February.More than 50 countries have \nrecognized Guaido as Venezuela\u2019s leader. When asked if the United States\n thought it had enough backing to oust Maduro\u2019s government at the United\n Nations, Pence said: \u201cI think the momentum is on the side of freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russian\n UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia accused the United States of provoking \nan artificial crisis to oust Maduro and replace him \u201cwith their own \npawn,\u201d actions he described as a \u201clawless, thuggish violation of \ninternational law.\u201d\u201cWe call on the United States to once again recognize\n that the Venezuelan people and other peoples have the right to \ndetermine their own future,\u201d Nebenzia said. \u201cIf you want to make America\n great again, and we are all sincerely interested in seeing that, stop \ninterfering in the affairs of other states.\u201dVenezuelan U.N. Ambassador \nSamuel Moncada said he had been expecting such a move from the United \nStates and Venezuela had been campaigning for months to ensure support \nfor Maduro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI sound a warning bell there is a clear move here \nagain to undermine our rights and if they can undermine our rights, they\n can undermine the rights of all members of this organization,\u201d he told \nthe Security Council.The United States called Wednesday\u2019s meeting of the\n Security Council to discuss the humanitarian situation in Venezuela. \nU.N. aid chief Mark Lowcock told the council that there is a \u201cvery real \nhumanitarian problem\u201d in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He briefed the council on a\n recent U.N. report on the situation that estimates about a quarter of \nVenezuelans are in need of humanitarian assistance, and painted a dire \npicture of millions of people lacking food and basic services.Some 3.4 \nmillion Venezuelans have left the country and the United Nations \npredicts that will rise to some 5 million by the end of the year.\n\n<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Vice President Mike Pence called on the United Nations on Wednesday to revoke the UN credentials of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro\u2019s government and recognize opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country\u2019s legitimate leader.He said the United States had drafted a UN resolution and called on all states to support it.\u201cThe time has come for [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58867,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58865\/revisions\/58867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}