Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab Must be Released, Reiterates UN's Alena Douhan
September 23, 2021
This Wednesday, September 22, during her speech at the forum The Negative Impact of Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Realization of the Right to Development, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Negative Impact of Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Enjoyment of Human Rights, Alena Douhan, stressed that the Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab must be released.
I was one of these special rapporteurs who was there and asked for the release of Ambassador Alex Saab, she stated during the event moderated by Venezuelas Permanent Representative to the United Nations based in Geneva, Héctor Constant Rosales.
Douhan stressed that we are doing everything possible, and said that continuing the media campaign is important, noting that her office maintains communications in order to promote the release of the Venezuelan diplomat, detained by Cape Verde at the service of the United States.
Venezuelan diplomat Saab was abducted by the authorities of the African country following Washingtons instructions, when Saab was traveling to Iran in order to fulfill a humanitarian mission initiated by the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, in order to acquire much needed food, medicine, and other supplies. Due to the illegal economic blockade applied by the US against the people of Venezuela, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, these items are scarce.
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