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| Venezuela criticizes US counter-terrorism policies |
| 2010-11-17 |
| [El Universal] The Venezuelan government strongly criticized "some governments that like to draw up lists of countries that allegedly cooperate with terrorism, while harboring within their own territory dangerous international terrorists." Valero also reminded the UN Security Council's resolutions 1,373 (2001) and 1,624 (2005) that demand member States not to provide shelter to faceless myrmidons and not to claim political motivations to refuse requests for the extradition of alleged terrorists, "but in the case of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, and other tried and convicted criminals in Venezuela for actions of this type, do not have any effect," said a statement issued by the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Jorge Valero, the Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society, recalled once again on Monday, in the context of the discussion on the Reports of the presidents of the Subsidiary Bodies of the Security Council, that "Luis Posada Carriles, the person responsible for the terrorist attack that killed 73 innocent civilians 34 years ago, for blowing up a Cubana de Aviación airplane off the coasts of Barbados, is free and active in the United States." The Venezuelan envoy reiterated the US government its request to extradite Luis Posada Carriles, or, at least, "try him for the terrorist acts he has admitted being involved with." |
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