Maduro announces return of UN Human Rights office to Venezuela

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduroannounced Tuesday the return to the country of the position of High Commissioner for United Nations of Human Rights, expelled in February after expressing concern about the detention of a humanitarian activist.

Maduro made the announcement in the company of the state prosecutor International Criminal Court (IPC), Karim Khanwho investigates Venezuela for possible crimes against humanity and welcomed the reopening of the delegation.

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“I received the proposal to invite again to the opening of the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the UN, Turkish Volker, being in our country, in Venezuela. I agree that we have overcome the differences, the conflict we had“Maduro said at an event with Khan at the presidential palace in Miraflores, in Caracas.

“I am ready to receive the envoy Volker Türk” he added.

Khan, who opened a public prosecutor’s office on Tuesday CPI In Caracas, they said “thank you very much” with Maduro for having “expressed his commitment, at my request, to allow the office of the UN High Commissioner to return to Venezuela,” according to the official translation.

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“I think it is something very positive and it is something that should be congratulated, something that should be highlighted in its importance.”.

The high commissioner expressed “deep concern”with the arrest in February Rocío São Miguelspecialist in military matters, accused of terrorism for her alleged links to a plot to assassinate Maduro.

The government condemned the reaction and later accused the cabinet of “become the private law firm of the group of scammers and terrorists”.

Source: Elcomercio

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