UNITED NATIONS, December 19. /TASS/. Escalatory US moves aimed at Venezuela are nothing but a clear manifestation of Washington’s neocolonial approaches, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said.
"Right now, we are witnessing a vivid display of neocolonial approaches in the escalatory actions by the US against Venezuela. Starting with false pretexts of combatting drug trafficking and terrorism, Washington has already moved on to open threats of military aggression and seizure of the territory and natural resources of a sovereign state," he told a high-level plenary meeting of the UN General Assembly to commemorate the 65th Anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.
He explained that "neocolonial practices include such measures as unilateral sanctions and debt bondage, military and political pressure and interference in electoral processes, as well as politicizing humanitarian aid and human rights, rewriting history, and imposing a so-called ‘rules-based world order’."
"For all these new methods, the goals of the former colonial powers remain the same as they were decades ago: plundering less developed countries and exploiting their natural, human, and other resources for their own benefit," Nebenzya said.
