AZAPO calls on FIFA to ban the US from international competitions

AZAPO President Nelvis Qekema

The Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) is calling on the football governing body FIFA to ban the US from international competitions, citing the country’s aggression towards Venezuela.

The party has condemned the US military strikes and the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, saying they are a violation of international law.

AZAPO president Nelvis Qekema says it’s satanic to kidnap a sitting president of a sovereign state.

“Trump and the US have violated the Constitution of the US, because you could never go as a US military and threaten another country without the sanction/agreement by the Congress of the US and they’ve done so, which means this is an impeachment offence by Trump. They’ve also violated international law, innermost to the UN charter, and in that point the US committed the worst political offence anybody can think of. It’s satanic to kidnap a sitting president of a sovereign state and go and try him with his spouse in another country.”

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