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Members Workers’ Party of Turkey (TIP) hold a protest, after U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. has struck Venezuela and captured its President Nicolas Maduro and his wife
South Africa has called on the UN Security Council (UNSC), the body mandated to maintain international peace and security, to urgently convene and address the current situation in Venezuela.
This after the US conducted a large-scale military strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicholas Maduro, who has been captured along with his wife and flown out of the country.
Pretoria says it views this as a manifest violation of the Charter of the United Nations, which mandates that all Member States refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.
International Relations Minister’s spokesperson Chrispin Phiri says the Charter does not authorise external military intervention in matters that are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of a sovereign nation.
“History has repeatedly demonstrated that military invasions against the sovereignty states yield only instability and a crisis. South Africa calls on the United Nations Security Council, mandated to maintain international peace, to urgently convene and address this situation.”
