Opposition Parties Condemn U.S. Attack on Venezuela

Rasim Ljajic (BETAPHOTO/MIlos Miskov)

On Jan. 3 and 4, a number of opposition parties in Serbia condemned the U.S. attack on Venezuela during which Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was abducted and taken to a New York prison.

Rasim Ljajic, president of the Social Democratic Party of Serbia, said that the U.S. military attack on Venezuela and taking into custody of its president was a dangerous precedent and symbolic end of international order as we have known it since the end of World War II. Ljajic said in a press release that if there had been any ambiguity about the relationship between power and law in international relations, the Venezuela operation had settled it on the side of brute military force.

The Ecological Uprising movement said in a press release that the U.S. had deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a military intervention over the country's natural resources, primarily oil, adding that Serbia's natural and cultural resources were "in their sights" too. The Ecological Uprising went on to say that U.S. President Donald Trump's elaboration after the strikes on Venezuela was "the rhetoric of a mob boss who thinks the planet is his backyard."

Former Serbian president Boris Tadic described the U.S. military operation as an act of "brutal violation of international law and the establishment of a principle that represents a threat to the security of the entire world." "After this act, any great or regional power can execute a similar attack in its interest zone," Tadic, the leader of the Social Democratic Party, said in a post on the X social media network.