POLICY_ Pompeo denounces Russia, China over support for Venezuela's Maduro

WASHINGTON EXAMINER

Pompeo denounces Russia, China over support for Venezuela's Maduro

by Joel Gehrke
January 26, 2019 03:32 PM


Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a sharp rebuke of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro’s international backers on Saturday in a United Nations Security Council meeting that afforded a face-off with Russian and Chinese envoys.

“It’s not a surprise that those who rule without democracy in their own countries are trying to prop up Maduro while he is in dire straits,” Pompeo told the Security Council, in a specific reference to “our Russian and Chinese colleagues” at the meeting.

Those comments continued an argument that began earlier Saturday, when the Security Council debated the decision to hold a meeting on the Venezuela crisis. Russia kicked off the discussion by denouncing the meeting as an “gross abuse” of the Security Council by the United States, arguing that the crisis is an internal Venezuelan problem and that President Trump’s team is unjustly threatening a foreign government.

Pompeo dismissed that argument by referencing to the humanitarian crisis in the country, which is suffering from food and medicine shortages, along with the collapse of its currency.

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