ALBA countries reject reimposition of US sanctions on Venezuela

Caracas. The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) rejected this Thursday the “arbitrary decision” of the United States government to reimpose sanctions on Venezuela.

The member states of ALBA-TCP “categorically reject the arbitrary decision of the United States government to reverse the license that facilitates operations in Venezuela in the oil and gas sector,” the bloc said in a statement.

The United States government decided on Wednesday to reinstate some of the sanctions on Venezuela’s oil and gas sector, according to a statement from the US Treasury Department.

In this regard, the ALBA-TCP assured that this action constitutes “a flagrant violation of International Law.”

Furthermore, he considered that the United States intends to “make discretionary use of spurious oil licenses with the aim of extorting the Venezuelan government, seeking to influence the actions and decisions” of the South American nation.

The regional bloc recognized the efforts of Venezuelans “to comply with the commitments made in the Barbados Agreement,” signed between the government and a sector of the opposition last October.

The ALBA-TCP called for the lifting of unilateral coercive measures and “respect for the people and government of Venezuela.”