The "storm" of geopolitics in the Caribbean Sea: Maduro: US military movements in the Caribbean Sea violate the Treaty of Tlatelolco
Russian State News Agency, Mexico City, August 28th. President of Venezuela Maduro stated that the United States sending a fleet of warships including nuclear submarines to the coast of Venezuela violates the Treaty of Tlatelolco.
Maduro said at the ceremony of presenting credentials in Caracas: "Venezuela is threatened by nuclear submarines, which violates the Treaty of Tlatelolco prohibiting the deployment, use and production of nuclear weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean Sea," VTV television reported the statement of Maduro.
The Trump administration of the United States sent three warships and 4,000 military personnel in its fleet to the southern part of the Caribbean Sea last week, including a missile cruiser and a nuclear submarine. Washington said this operation was aimed at preventing drugs from flowing into the United States.
Caracas emphasized that the U.S. action not only threatens Venezuela itself, but also the stability of the entire region. This area was declared a peace zone by the Community of Latin American and Caribbean Nations in 2014. Therefore, the Venezuelan government wrote a letter to the UN Secretary-General Guterres, asking the United States to withdraw the warships and clearly guarantee that no nuclear weapons will be used or deployed in this region.
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (the Treaty of Tlatelolco) was signed in Mexico City in 1967, with 33 countries in the region as members. The nuclear powers, including the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, France, and China, signed an additional memorandum of understanding to the treaty, which obliges them not to violate the nuclear-free status of this region.
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