The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduroannounced on Tuesday the return to the country of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for the Human rightsexpelled in February after expressing concern about the arrest of a humanitarian activist.
“I have received the proposal to invite again the opening of the office of the UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker Turk, to be in our country, in Venezuela. I agree that we overcome the differences, the conflict that we had,” Maduro said at an event with Khan at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas.
“I have received the proposal to invite again the opening of the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, to be in our country, in Venezuela. I agree, that we overcome the differences, the conflict that we had
Khan, who opened an ICC prosecutor's office in Caracas on Tuesday, said he was “very grateful” to Maduro for having “expressed his commitment at my request to allow the ICC's office UN High Commissioner return to Venezuela”, according to the official translation.
“I think it is something very positive and it is something that must be congratulated, something that should be underlined in its importance.”
The government condemned the reaction and then accused the office of “becoming the private law firm of the group of coup plotters and terrorists.”
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