It is noted with deep consternation that several states In Latin America, the Middle East and elsewhere
are ominously threatened with military strikes and other forceful measures in potential violation of
their respective sovereignty and territorial integrity’
These threats have been made especially in the wal<e of the recent unlawful military incursions into
Venezuela and the arrest and detention of the President of that country, carried out by the incumbent
Trump Administration.
No country, however big or powerful, can flagrantly breach the international law and the UN Charter’
The post-world war order, which by and large ensured global stability despite some persistent, yet
unresolved, challenges to international peace and security, has been made more volatile by the
ruth less, aggravated pu rsuit of se lf-se rvi ng geo po I itica I a m bitio ns.
Resource-plundering drlve of the kind of geopolitcs that ls fleetingly at play today, runs diametrically
counter to allinternational legal norms and established diplomatic practices’
strikingly, American foreign policy adventurism appears to have discarded its moralfig leaf which hid
itstrue intentions behind regime change projects, irredenfist inclinations, and proxy-led atrocities, and
now openly and unashamedly claims ownership of, or control over, resources of other countries’ lt is
well entrenched in the international law, that sovereignty over natural resources rests entirely with
the countrY theY are endowed with’
These are developments which can only lead to the debasement of humanity at large, if they are given
a free reign. They can dangerously drag the world close to another world war, to avoid which the UN
was established in the first Place’
we unreservedly abhor these highly abominable acts and incidents, and call for dialogue and
cooperalion among states as the only path towards the resolution of disputes and conflicts’ and also
for the unravelling of oppressive policies and injustices caused to vulnerable states and peoples’
It is high time that the global community rose in solidaritrty with the states concerned and strove to
check uni pulsesthatthreatenthedelicatepeaceandsecurityworldwide.
Rauff Hakeem,
