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Patrick Goodenough | September 12, 2018 | 4:17 AM EDT
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https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/un-human-rights-council-gives-platform-venezuelan-minister-who-slams(CNSNews.com) – The U.N. Human Rights Council, now without the United States after the Trump administration’s departure, opened a new session in Geneva this week, and gave a platform to the foreign minister of Venezuela.
In his speech Tuesday Jorge Arreaza – who in June welcomed the U.S. withdrawal from the U.N.’s highest human rights body – accused the U.S. of “flagrant human rights abuses†in the form of sanctions against Venezuela, and a decades-long embargo of Cuba.
He urged the HRC to take a stand against such “unilateral coercive measures†against any country, designed to force it to follow the dictates of powerful nations.