CARACAS: Venezuela will ask the United Nations to assist take away landmines in its territory that it says have been deployed by “irregular” armed teams close to the Colombian border, President Nicolas Maduro mentioned on Sunday.
Maduro’s authorities on Thursday mentioned two troopers have been killed by a land mine throughout navy operations within the state of Apure, the place clashes between troopers and armed teams has led hundreds of Venezuelans to flee throughout the border.
The authorities will ask UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres for “immediate emergency assistance so that they can bring all of the techniques to deactivate the minefields that these irregular groups have left behind,” Maduro mentioned in a televised broadcast.
The UN didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Colombian President Ivan Duque has accused Venezuela of sheltering members of the National Liberation Army, or ELN, and dissidents of the FARC insurgent group who reject a 2016 peace cope with the Colombian authorities. Maduro denies the declare.
Rights teams from the 2 international locations on Wednesday known as on the UN to nominate a particular envoy to handle the humanitarian disaster on the border, which has been for years a middle of drug trafficking and smuggling.
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