To the High Representative of the EU
Mr. Josep Borrell Fontelles
cab-borrell-fontelles-contact@ec.europa.eu
European Commission
Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat 200
1049 Brussels

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*Open letter to Mr. Joseph Borell. Global call for respect for Venezuela by
the European Union*

Dear Mr. Borell,

The undersigned are writing to you in order to express our concern for the
resolution approved on July 9, 2020 by the European Parliament on „the
humanitarian situation in Venezuela and the migration and refugee crisis“
which is in contradiction in the spirit of the joint communiqué issued on
July 1, 2020 by the Ministry of Popular Power for Foreign Relations of the
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Foreign Action Service of the
European Union, where the parties express:

„Both agreed to promote diplomatic contacts between the parties at the
highest level, within the framework of sincere cooperation and respect for
international law.“

Unfortunately, there is a majority of members of the European Parliament
who insist on a confrontational policy and a policy that identifies with
the objectives of the State Department of the US government for the
promotion of the regime change policy in Venezuela.

These parliamentarians insist on promoting the application of sanctions and
stripping the Venezuelan government of its financial resources and blocking
its possibilities of accessing the international market for the purchase of
food and medicine, so necessary in the context of the current COVID-19
pandemic, by the way. In this process, they promote the violation of the
norms that govern relations between States at the international level.

What this is about, in the case of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is
to seek cooperation mechanisms and constructive dialogue such as those that
allowed the recent appointment of the members of the Supreme Electoral
Council, thanks to an agreement between a sector of the Venezuelan
opposition and representatives of the government of President Maduro.

This circumstantial majority of the European Parliament fails to recognize
that Venezuela has the problems it has due to the terrible consequences of
the sanctions policy promoted by the United States that seek to suffocate
the economy in order to produce a collapse punishing thirty million
Venezuelans who are denied access to food, medicine and essential resources
to combat the current pandemic.

This resolution pays little attention to the real migration problems
experienced by the countless Venezuelans who return to the country fleeing
from hunger, xenophobia and the coronavirus in neighbouring countries of
Venezuela.


This resolution is in fact opposed to calls made by the UN Secretary
General, Pope Francis and yourself as a High Representative of the European
Union, among others, to suspend sanctions against Venezuela. One of the
worst aspects of the resolution is that it supports the theft by the
British government of the gold deposited in the Bank of England by ignoring
the right of the Venezuelan government to these resources.

The resolution ignores the fact that in January, Mr. Juan Guaidó, as a
result of his innumerable errors, acts of corruption, links with drug
trafficking and Colombian paramilitarism, lost the support of an important
sector of the Venezuelan opposition and consequently was not re-elected as
President of the National Assembly, even refusing to attend the session
where his possible re-election had to be voted.

We highlight that this resolution insists on the regime change policy
promoted by the government of Donald Trump, in opposition to the joint
declaration signed by you and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela
and seems to promote the repetition of experiences of intervention and
interference by the European Union, that have ended in terrible bloodbaths
and irreparable damage in the intervened countries.

For all these reasons, we urge you to maintain and defend your willingness
to open dialogue with the government of the Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela, reinforcing friendly relations and cooperation, with full
respect for the institutional decisions of the Venezuelan State in the
framework of the laws and the Venezuelan democratic process, before the
legislative elections that will take place on December 6, 2020.

Respectfully