TASSSat, 02 Mar 2019 19:47 UTC
© EPA-EFE/JIM LO SCALZOUS Special Representative for Venezuela and convicted felon Elliott Abrams
US Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams confirmed on Friday US plans to hold direct talks with the Russian side.
"Yes, there are conversations, obviously constantly between the United States and Russia on a variety of issues including this one [Venezuela]," the diplomat said, noting that he takes part in these talks.
The special envoy noted that on Thursday he had "a very nice conversation" with Russia's UN Envoy Vasily Nebenzya prior to the UN Security Council's session on Venezuela.
In mid-February, speaking at the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, Abrams claimed that the US consultations with Russia on Venezuela did not yield any results. Russian Foreign Ministry's official spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Moscow was ready for dialogue on the situation in the Bolivarian Republic with everyone, including with Washington,
but on the basis of principles of international law.
The diplomat noted that US consultations with Venezuela mainly focused on the issues of ensuring security of American citizens there. He didn't meet with representatives of the Venezuelan government this week at the UN, he noted.
Comment: Time and time again Russia in recent years has given individuals following world events the ability to see the lawlessness of the actions of the United States. They have pointing toward the direction of the importance of international law and the rule of law in the conduct between nations mostly in response to the United States' total disregard for such things. In the process of doing so, the United States has been exposed for all to see as a nation with the characteristics of a bully, a liar and a murderer. Convicted felon Abrams' involvement in the openly acknowledged attempted coup in Venezuela is a sign in itself of just how far the United States has strayed. One must wonder what the leaders of Russia actually think of those they are forced to interact with.
From the
New York Times in 1991:
"Mr. Abrams stands convicted of two misdemeanors, violations of the contempt of Congress law. Its felony counterpart would have been perjury, but the charges employ the euphemism that he "withheld" information when he told two Congressional committees something other than what he knew. What he "withheld" were the facts that the Reagan Administration was hip-deep in the contra arms supply business and that Mr. Abrams had solicited $10 million in purported contra aid from the Sultan of Brunei.
Few members of the Iran-contra crew more symbolized the lawlessness of the Reagan Administration than Mr. Abrams. His guilty pleas, and whatever help he can give to ferreting out other offenses, are as welcome as they are late."
Speaking for US interests at the UN regarding Venezuela, could one call it a conflict of interest?
This from the Guardian US Envoy convicted over Iran Contra, appointed Special Envoy to Venezuela
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To my mind it beggars belief, that a convicted criminal was give a platform to speak at the UN, this demonstrates to me the total contempt that the US has for the rest of the World, but not only that to completely disregard a world based on truth and justice (as bad as it looks, I still think at this time, there is a modicum of truth and justice left).
I would like to be a fly on the wall, for those talks!