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* Foreign Minister summons Spanish Ambassador for alleged interference in internal affairs. *National Assembly, Supreme Court of Justice, Bolivarian Armed Forces and regional bloc ALBA-TCP express rejection towards sanctions imposed by United States government. teleSUR

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00:00In Venezuela, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ivan Gil, summoned the Ambassador of Spain

00:05in the country, Ramon Santos, to express the government's firm stance in the face of any

00:09interference.

00:10During an official communique, Gil assured, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Ambassador

00:16Santos to express the strong position of the Venezuelan government, which will not allow

00:20any interference by the government of Spain in matters that are the exclusive competence

00:26of Venezuelan men and women.

00:28The Venezuelan government will adopt the necessary measures within the framework of international

00:32law and the Bolivarian Diplomacy of Peace to protect its sovereignty.

00:42The Bolivarian National Armed Forces of Venezuela rejected the recent imposition of unilateral

00:47coercive measures by the United States on high-ranking Venezuelan officials.

00:51In response to the recent coercive measures, the Minister of Defense warned that the Bolivarian

00:56Armed Forces are unbreakable and will continue defending the democracy in Venezuela.

01:02In this sense, Padrino Lopez asserted that the members of the Ministry will remain faithful

01:06to the Venezuelan sovereignty.

01:08The Defense Minister assured that the agents of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces have

01:13no price and will remain united and on alert to defend their sovereignty.

01:24The Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela rejected the sanctions imposed against national

01:29government officials by the United States.

01:32On Friday, Washington sanctioned 16 officials, among them five magistrates of the Supreme

01:37Court and directors of the National Electoral Council, for allegedly obstructing the presidential

01:43voting process of July 28.

01:45In response, the President of the Supreme Court of Justice, Carizlia Rodríguez, pointed

01:49out that this practice collides with the accepted principles of international law on self-determination

01:56and democracy.

01:57Furthermore, the TSG president reaffirmed that the entity has always been a promoter

02:03of peace in the country, whose decisions have been backed by the national legal system in

02:08order to warranty the tranquility of the nation.

02:15The President of the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela, Carizlia Beatriz Rodríguez,

02:19offered statements in rejection of the sanctions imposed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control

02:24of the U.S. Treasury Department against Venezuelan individuals.

02:31The Supreme Court of Justice of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, on behalf of the entire

02:36judiciary, once again repudiates the interfering action of the United States of America in

02:43the internal affairs of the republic by imposing unilateral and illegitimate and illegal coercive

02:53measures on 16 Venezuelan officials, among which are the magistrates Carizlia Beatriz

03:00Rodríguez Rodríguez, Fanny Beatriz Márquez Cordero, Inocencio Antonio Figueroa, Malakia

03:07Gil Rodríguez, and Juan Carlos Hidalgo Pandare, as well as Judge Eduardo Miguel Bristeño Cisneros.

03:16Furthermore, the head of the Venezuelan judiciary expressed her solidarity with the national

03:22public powers in the face of the imperial onslaught of the United States government.

03:27For this reason, the words of our libertador, Simón Bolívar, seem fitting, and I quote

03:35the United States seemed destined by providence to flag America with mysteries in the name of freedom.

03:42End of quote.

03:50Likewise, the judiciary expresses its solidarity with the other national public powers that

03:56today have been attacked and insulted by the imperial onslaught,

04:01ratifying its commitment to peace, sovereignty, and independence of our beloved Venezuela.

04:12The National Electoral Council of Venezuela, CNI, issued a statement to repudiate the act

04:18of interference committed by the government of the United States of America as it tries

04:23to point out and intimidate a group of Venezuelan public servants through illegal unilateral

04:29coercive measures.

04:30According to the statement, the electoral power of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

04:34repudiates the infamous act of interference committed by the government of the United

04:39States of America with which it is trying to point out and intimidate a group of Venezuelan

04:44public servants through illegal unilateral coercive measures promoted by criminal groups

04:49linked to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other crimes who have allied with you and

04:54other corrupt structures to finance operations against the Venezuelan electoral system and

04:59its members.

05:00Later on, the electoral authority stated that the United States of America has one of the

05:05most pathetic and obsolete electoral systems on the planet.

05:09For this reason, the U.S. government lacks the moral authority to evaluate and give its

05:14opinion on electoral issues, much less in Venezuela where there is an electoral system

05:19with the highest global standards.

05:21Attempting to blackmail the members of the National Electoral Council is a crude maneuver

05:26that has failed before.

05:28No illegal sanction against the institution has distanced it from its constitutional mandate.

05:34The Venezuelan electoral power is today firm, united, and stronger than ever.

05:38Finally, the communique ended by demanding that the government of the United States not

05:43to get involved in the internal affairs of the Venezuelan electoral power, and we urged

05:48it to dedicate itself to attend the internal affairs of its country, and ended by reminding

05:54that Venezuela is a sovereign country that only obeys the will of the people of the Bolivarian

05:59Republic of Venezuela.

06:08The National Assembly of Venezuela condemned and rejected through an official statement

06:12the unilateral and coercive measures announced against Venezuelan individuals by the United

06:17States government.

06:18According to the statement, the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela condemns

06:23and rejects in the strongest terms the continuous and permanent aggression by the supremacist

06:28government of the United States of America, this time by imposing unilateral coercive

06:33measures against dignified and courageous Venezuelan public servants, such as the first

06:38Vice President of the National Assembly, Deputy Pedro Infante.

06:42It follows by stating,

06:44We express our deep solidarity with the decent Venezuelans who were attacked by this new

06:49and illegitimate action of the imperialist hegemony against our homeland and our institutions,

06:55and we tell the decadent United States of American Empire and its European satellites

07:01that no unilateral coercive measures will stop the libertarian and independent path

07:06of the Venezuelan people that they have chosen.

07:10The communiqué closes by declaring that the National Assembly demands full respect for

07:15the institutionalism of the country, and we reiterate before the world that more than

07:19200 years ago we ceased to be a colony thanks to the will and struggle of our people, and

07:25therefore do not accept nor will accept the interference of foreign powers in our internal

07:30affairs nor any neocolonial subordination.

07:40On Friday, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Aramerica's People's Strait Treaty

07:46ALBA-TCP released a statement condemning the new unilateral coercive measures imposed

07:51by the US government on Venezuelan citizens. According to the communiqué, the member states

07:56of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Aramerica's People's Strait Treaty ALBA-TCP

08:01categorically reject the new imposition of unilateral coercive measures by the government

08:07of the United States and Venezuelan nationals. It follows today Venezuela has 16 nationals

08:13unilaterally sanctioned for the simple fact of fulfilling their duties and basically for

08:18being Venezuelans and not acting to benefit a Venezuelan political sector which is well

08:23known for being extremist and fascist and has always claimed to be in favor of interventionism

08:29and the violation of international law rather than assuming its defeat. The statement ends

08:35The statement emphasizes these measures not only attack the 16 sanctioned individuals,

08:40this criminal and illegal practice of the US government against the states that do not

08:45work in favor of its interests, alters the economic and political stability of this country

08:51and the entire region. Finally, the communiqué states, ALBA-TCP strongly repudiates this

08:57new attack against public officials, their human and civil rights and the Venezuelan

09:02nation in general which threatens the peace and tranquility of all Latin America and the

09:07Caribbean and calls on regional governments to reject this measure and to promote diplomacy

09:13and respect for the self-determination of the peoples and closes by emphasizing that

09:18the Bolivarian alliance demands respect for the sovereignty of the free peoples of our

09:23America and the Caribbean and reaffirms its unrestricted support and solidarity with the

09:28people and government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

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