Venezuela's UN Ambassador Samuel Moncada condemning US military threats at the UN Security Council on October 10, 2025. Photo: Upscale image from UN footage.
On Thursday, the Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Samuel Moncada, presented a letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressing Venezuela’s repudiation of biased statements made by his spokesperson regarding the US military deployment off the Venezuelan coast.
The letter condemns Guterres’ inaction on the matter, stating that he has been notified privately on several occasions about these actions. President Maduro said that the letter seeks to make the complaint public “in the hope that this practice will end once and for all.”
The letter criticized the comments made on Thursday by the Secretary-General’s spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, who made a “call for de-escalation of the situation,” surprisingly directed at both the United States and Venezuela.
Venezuela considers this call “a serious distortion of the facts and an immoral equation of the aggressor and the victim.” It said that they are “biased comments… when addressing issues related to the escalation of the situation off the coast of Venezuela, as a result of the growing US military deployment in the Caribbean Sea and the perpetration of extrajudicial executions in international waters.”
Moncada emphasized that Venezuela is not the one conducting provocative maneuvers near US territory, nor is it the one deploying nuclear submarines, aircraft carriers, or strategic bombers. Venezuela is also not the one carrying out air attacks against civilian boats, causing nearly 80 deaths.
The Venezuelan diplomat stated that defensive actions carried out within Venezuelan territory in response to an “explicit and imminent foreign threat” are a right they possess under the United Nations Charter. These exercises cannot be compared to the offensive actions by the United States, and therefore, it is not Venezuela that is exacerbating the tension in the region.
Ambassador Moncada noted that placing both nations on equal footing amounts to endorsing the ongoing US aggression against Venezuela, which seeks to fabricate a conflict, and questions the defensive preparations carried out by the Venezuelan government within its own borders.
UN spokesperson’s repeated statements about the military threats reflect a firm pattern in which they ignore the true situation on the ground, “the illegal and coercive actions of the United States government as part of an exercise intended to destroy our republican form of government and impose a puppet regime.”
According to the letter, the statements violate Article 100 of the UN Charter, “by dangerously abandoning the neutrality, impartiality, and rigor expected of an international official.” The call for “de-escalation” by the UN Secretary-General’s spokesperson is a breach of his duty to uphold the principles enshrined in the UN Charter, specifically the prohibition against the use or threat of force against the integrity and political independence of any territory.
The letter calls for immediate and public action to “clarify the situation, unambiguously identifying the source of the escalation and condemning the provocative US military deployment in the Caribbean, off the coast of Venezuela.”
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The letter also calls to “urge the government of the United States to immediately withdraw its military assets from the region, to cease its threats of use of force against Venezuela and its policies of extrajudicial executions, and to embrace diplomacy and cooperation as the only way to address issues of containment.”
Finally, the Venezuelan diplomat called for ensuring that the spokesperson’s future statements are impartial and do not equate “the victim of aggression with the aggressor.” Samuel Moncada concluded the letter by noting that this matter “is directly related to preserving the integrity, neutrality, and independence of the United Nations as an international organization.”
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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