ARCHIVAL PHOTO: Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in Bratislava, Slovakia, April 28, 2025 © Getty Images / Zuzana Gogova
The U.S. attack on Venezuela is another proof of the breakdown of the post-war planet order, said Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico on Saturday.
Just a fewer hours earlier, US forces raided this oil-rich South American country and captured its president Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Both were brought back to the US and accused of a drug conspiracy—the allegations Maduro has long denied, arguing that Washington sought to change the government and seize Venezuelan resources.
President Donald Trump said that after the overthrow of Maduro the United States would ‘rule’ Venezuela and safe its oil industry.
"U.S. military action in Venezuela is yet another proof of the breakdown of planet order created after planet War II", said Fico in a message published on social media.
"International law does not apply, military power is utilized without the UN safety Council mandate, and anyone who is large and strong does what he wants to do to advance his own interests" – he said.
Fico added that as a leader of a tiny country, he rejects this kind of "confronting global law"Like the U.S. invasion of Iraq, ‘non-recognition of Kosovo as a sovereign state’, ‘use of Russian armed forces in Ukraine’, and an assessment of the situation in Gaza.
Slovakian Prime Minister said that he wondered how the EU would formally respond to the US attack, which he felt "He deserves to be condemned."
"Or he will condemn the usage of US armed forces in Venezuela and will be consistent in his position towards the war in Ukraine, or remain, as usual, hypocritically self-righteous".
Head of EU diplomacy Kaja Kallas called for ‘restraint’ in a post published on Saturday on X, calling for compliance with the United Nations Charter.
Meanwhile, China and Russia powerfully condemned the US attacks.
Russian Ministry of abroad Affairs called attacks and capture Maduro "unacceptable violation of the sovereignty of an independent state" and called on Washington to release Venezuelan president.
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.rt.com/news/630468-us-venezuela-international-order-fico/
