IDEA Group asks the apostolic nuncio and the Red Cross to provide protection to asylum seekers in the Argentine Embassy
The Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA Group), made up of 29 former Ibero-American presidents, asked the apostolic nuncio in Caracas and the International Committee of the Red Cross to provide humanitarian protection to the six opponents asylum in the Argentine Embassysubjected to the siege by the Venezuelan State since Saturday, November 23.
Through a statement, they urged these organizations to “assume the duties of humanitarian protection that correspond to them in the case, given that those asylum seekers in the Argentine Embassy are being treated as prisoners of the Venezuelan State and members of its dictatorial regime.”
The IDEA Group reported that The government of Nicolás Maduro tries to transform the Argentine diplomatic headquarters into a prisonafter the siege intensified against the asylum seekers, who remain without electricity or drinking water.
“We observe the attempt to transform the Argentine Embassy into another prison for the Venezuelan regime, which seriously violates the foundations of international and humanitarian law,” he warned in a statement.
IDEA Group denounces inhuman treatment of asylum seekers at the Argentine Embassy
The former presidents who make up the initiative also warned about the «inhuman and degrading treatment and the isolation conditions to which Venezuelan asylum seekers are being subjected in the Argentine Embassy in Caracas immediate collaborators of María Corina Machado, who are prevented from receiving vital and medical services.
They recalled that the government of Brazil, which has been guarding the embassy since August after the expulsion of the Argentine diplomatic personnel, “as stipulated by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, has the duty to respect and protect the diplomatic headquarters in question.”
They demanded from the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, “firm action in this regard, as well as from governments and international organizations with diplomatic representations accredited in Venezuela, to ensure that the siege on the embassy ceases and safe conduct is granted to the six opponents who have been sheltered in the diplomatic headquarters since March.
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