Venezuelan Foreign minister detained in U.S.
This is from a list-serve that a fellow peace activist gets which comes from Greece. What a shocking host country the US is for the United Nations! Probably nothing that we'll see in our mainstream media. Guess Bush really got ticked off about Hugo Chavez calling him "el Diablo"...
Cuba, Press Communiqué
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From: Embassy of Cuba in Athens, Monday, September 25, 2006
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Press Communiqué
The President of the Non-Aligned Movement has learned with indignation that on the afternoon of Saturday 23 September 2006, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, H.E. Mr. Nicolás Maduro, was illegally held for an hour and a half at JFK Airport by authorities of the Government of the United States of America, as he was about to board a flight bound for the city of Miami on his way to Caracas.
The Venezuelan Foreign Minister informed that, while held, he was threatened to be beaten and handcuffed, in addition to being insulted and having his documents removed.
The President of the Non-Aligned Movement considers that the incident with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of one of its member countries is an unacceptable violation of the Vienna Convention, of the obligations of the Government of the United States of America as host country of the United Nations and of all relevant norms and practices regarding the treatment of internationally protected persons.
Therefore, the President of the Non-Aligned Movement hereby expresses its strongest protest to this gross provocation, which could take place again against any member of the Movement.
New York, 23 September 2006
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