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Venezuela Refutes UK statement on election
Caracas, Nov 25 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela on Thursday described as unacceptable the statement of the United Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office regarding the election held on Sunday in this South American nation.
A statement issued by the Foreign Ministry denounced the hostile political intentionality against the Venezuelan government and people, through an interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign country.
Caracas also called on the United Kingdom to put aside disrespect, interference and colonial practices as part of its foreign policy, and demanded a rectification of this statement, according to which the conditions for a free and fair election in Venezuela fell did not meet the required standards.
The statement stressed that the participation of all the country’s political sectors (…) and the monitoring by more than 300 international observers and electoral monitoring missions, certify the existence in Venezuela of a vibrant democracy and the robustness of one of the most audited electoral systems in the world.
The Venezuelan Government also ratified the commitment to strengthen the vitality of the participatory and protagonist democracy and reiterated to the United Kingdom the request for the immediate return of the gold seized from the vaults of British banks.
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