Here is an excerpt of the remarks by Ambassador Sophia Tesfamariam Yohannes, Permanent Representative of Eritrea to the United Nations, at the UN Security Council emergency meeting on Venezuela in New York on Monday:

The member states of the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations expressed their serious concern at the impact of these series of armed attacks, particularly on civilians and their human rights to life, which have included military assaults with US special forces, while emphasizing that such acts constitute a clear breach of international law and of each and every principle governing international relations, including those foreseen in the Charter of the United Nations.

The group of friends of the Charter of the United Nations firmly reject the remarks delivered by the President of the United States of America during the afternoon of Jan 3 2026, in which he not only threatened with additional airstrikes against the Venezuelan territory, but also claimed to resolve to occupy and govern the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and to exploit the natural resources and administer the wealth of that sisterly nation in what can only be described as the confession of a clear plan of annexation that foresees, among others, the complete obliteration of the inalienable rights of the Venezuelan people as well as the fundamental rights of the Venezuelan state as a whole.