Venezuela’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mr Yvan Gil in The Hague

By Roy Lie Atjam.

The Hague, 17 February 2019. The Deputy Foreign Minister of Venezuela, Mr. Yvan Gil is on a European tour that will take him to several European countries. He made a stop-over in The Hague.

Deputy Minister, Mr. Yvan Gil, paid a courtesy visit on OPCW Director General, Mr. Fernando Arias and met with his Dutch homologue at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Marcel deVink.

Scores of Ambassadors, diplomats, International Judges, members of the None-Alignment Movement (NAM+China) all representing countries and institutions friendly to Venezuela, attended a reception hosted H.E. Ms. Haifa Aissami Maddah of Venezuela in honor of the visiting Minister Gil.

 A poise and convincing  Minister Yvan  Gil, delivered a puissant speech explaining the current situation of his country the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The speech was not just powerful but very enlighting as well.

One now has a balanced view of developments in the Republic of Venezuela,  a sovereign state bend on defending the right to self-determination. Here are some excerpts of Mr Yvan Gil’s speech:Venezuela has the world’s first oil reserve, the world’s fourth gold reserve, as well as other large reserves of gas, iron, diamonds, water.

Venezuela is a victim of a blockade and financial expropriation that makes free trade impossible, particularly the purchase of food and medicine. Under this pretext, ´they´wanted to promote a scenario that reflects the need for humanitarian aid for Venezuela, but an humanitarian aid not accompanied by the International Red Cross, but by foreign military forces.

We insist that our country does not live in a humanitarian crisis, our country suffers an economic crisis due to the financial embargo and the economic blockade. Within this blockade: Euroclear has retained 1,400 million euros belonging to Venezuela, the Bank of England has confiscated 1,200 million dollars in gold and the United States expropriated more than 30,000 million dollars, property of the Venezuelan State. The Latin American Geopolitical Strategic Center (CELAG) calculates a loss of 350, 000 million dollars in the last 5 years, product of this financial blockade.

The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, has repeatedly called the Venezuelan opposition deeply connected with the Department of State of the United States of America, to dialogue, as the only way to preserve internal peace.

Please find a link to the full speech by Deputy Minister Mr Yvan Gil in Spanish.

file:///C:/Users/PC%20Medion/Downloads/Speech_Vice-minister_for%20Europe%20(2).pdf

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Photography by Imane Rachidi.