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Caracas - Venezuela rejected
categorically on Tuesday Colombian Defense
Minister Juan Manuel Santos' statements,
because they are a threat to the stability
and sovereignty of regional countries.
Those statements are an aggression against
the relation of coexistence and respect that
our countries should maintain, and a threat
to the agenda of cooperation and peace that
Presidents Hugo Chavez and Alvaro Uribe
defined in recent bilateral meetings,
according to a Venezuelan Foreign Ministry
communique.
The text called repudiable the high-handed
attitude by Minister Santos, who is showing
again his disdain for the international law,
asserting that attacking irregular forces
out of its borders "is an act of
self-defense and a doctrine more accepted
each time by the international community and
law."
It also said Minister Santos fell into a
gross ignorance of the consensus reached
unanimously in the region, after the Rio
Group's Heads of State and Government
Declaration was signed on March 7, 2008 in
Santo Domingo.
In that meeting, they agreed that "the
territory of a State is inviolable and can
not be the target of military occupation or
other forceful measures adopted by another
State, directly or indirectly, whatever the
motive is, not even temporarily."
The regional presidents ratified in Santo
Domingo the doctrine of defense of
sovereignty of our countries, said the text.
The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry ratified
President Hugo Chavez' government
willingness to make progress in that
positive agenda with the Colombian
government, based on strict respect to the
international law and the sacred sovereignty
of our homeland."
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