Jürgen Hardt (CDU), international coverage spokesman for the Union faction: “Maduro has suppressed civil society in Venezuela for many years and supported terror and drugs in the region as an instrument of power to destabilize his opponents. This was contrary to international law. The end of his rule is good news from a human rights perspective.”
Roderich Kiesewetter (CDU): “With President Trump, the USA is finally leaving the rules-based order that has shaped us since 1945. Venezuela is an unjust state, but not an Iran that threatens the existence of neighboring countries like Israel.”
Adis Ahmetovic, international coverage spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group: “What we are presumably experiencing here is a highly dangerous shift in the international order. If military force is used without a UN mandate, regime change is openly pursued and international law is reduced to a bargaining chip, then the law of the strongest is increasingly replacing the strength of the law. Anyone who ignores international law and puts power above rules is no different from authoritarian actors in their actions.”
Metin Hakverdi (SPD), Transatlantic Coordinator of the Federal Government: “There is already a domestic political discussion in the USA; it is not just Democrats who are criticizing the military strikes. Congress was not involved in this,” Hakverdi informed Reuters. The US navy strike have to be understood in opposition to the background of the brand new nationwide safety technique of the USA. The Western Hemisphere is now a strategic precedence for the USA. “There the USA wants to take decisive action against drug smuggling, but also the influence of foreign powers, if necessary with force. The USA saw Venezuela as a source of instability in the region.”
Jan van Aken, Chief of Links: “Anyone who, like Trump, breaks international law and has presidents kidnapped, is engaging in brutal state terrorism.” He known as for sanctions in opposition to the USA. “Double standards must not be applied when it comes to wars of aggression that violate international law.” he added to the “Bild” newspaper. Anyone who sanctions Russian President Vladimir Putin should additionally sanction Trump. The federal authorities should press for a direct condemnation of the US assault by the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly.
Katharina Dröge, chief of the Green Party: “The air strikes on the capital of Venezuela by the USA represent a breach of international law. And they are a dangerous military escalation,” mentioned Green Party parliamentary group chief Katharina Dröge to the editorial community Germany. She expects a transparent condemnation from the federal authorities.
Sahra Wagenknecht, BSW politician: “Trump’s military strike against Venezuela and the arrest of Maduro are a blatant violation of all rules of international law in order to secure Wild West-style access to Venezuela’s oil wells,” she informed Reuters. She additionally spoke of American “state terrorism.”
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