Venezuela: Govt. breaks ties with Paraguay

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The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry issued a communiqué to announce the breaking off of diplomatic relations with the republic of Paraguay.  In the statement, the ministry assured: these actions are a repetition of strategies without political, legal or social support, which have demonstrated their resounding failure. It is regrettable that governments such as Paraguay’s continue to subordinate their foreign policy to the interests of foreign powers, promoting agendas aimed at undermining democratic principles and the will of free peoples.

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00:00The Venezuelan foreign ministry issued a communique to announce the breaking of diplomatic relations

00:05with the Republic of Paraguay.

00:08The document assured that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela categorically rejects the statements

00:13of the President of Paraguay, Santiago Peña, who disregarded international law as a principle

00:19of non-intervention, fell again into the failed practice reminiscent of the political fantasies

00:27of the defunct Lima Group with its ridiculous adventures called White Dome.

00:36In the statement, the ministry assured,

00:38These actions are a repetition of strategies without political, legal or social support,

00:44which have demonstrated their result in failure.

00:47It is regrettable that governments such as Paraguay continue to subordinate their foreign

00:53policy to the interests of foreign powers, promoting agendas aimed at undermining democratic

00:59principles and the will of the free peoples.

01:02In this context, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has decided, in full exercise of

01:06its sovereignty, to break diplomatic relations with the Republic of Paraguay and to proceed

01:11to the immediate withdrawal of its political personnel accredited in that country.

01:16The communique ends.

01:17The Bolivarian government reiterates its commitment to the defense of democracy, peace and self-determination

01:25of the peoples, essential principles of the United Nations, and reaffirms that no tricks

01:32orchestrated by international fascism will be able to bend the will of the people determined

01:37to build its own destiny.

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