The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced on Tuesday return to the country of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rightsexpelled in February after expressing concern about the arrest of a humanitarian activist.
Ripe made the announcement in the company of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan who investigates Venezuela for possible Crimes against humanityand celebrated the reopening of the delegation.
“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, let’s overcome the differencesthe conflict we had,” Maduro said at an event with Khan at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas. “I am ready to receive envoy Volker Türk,” he added.
Venezuela reopened the UN Human Rights office
khan, which opened this Tuesday an office of the ICC prosecutor in Caracas, He said “very grateful” with Maduro for having “expressed his commitment at my request to allow the office of the High Commissioner of the UN return to Venezuela”, according to the official translation. “I think it’s something very positive and it’s something to be congratulated, something that should be underlined in its importance,” she said.
The high commissioner expressed “deep concern” with the arrest in February of Rocío San Miguelan expert on topics military, accused of terrorism for her alleged links to a plot to assassinate Maduro.
The government condemned the reaction and then accused the office of “becoming the private law firm of the group of coup plotters and terrorists.”
Source: Ambito
