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04 Jan 2026, 01:51 GMT+10
Big and strong countries now use military force without a UN mandate, openly flouting international law, the Slovak PM has said
The US attack on Venezuela further proves that the post-World War II world order is breaking down, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Saturday.
Just hours earlier, US forces conducted air strikes on the oil-rich South American country and captured its president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife. Both have been brought back to the US and charged with drug trafficking conspiracy - allegations that Maduro has long denied, arguing that Washington was after regime change and Venezuelan resources.
President Donald Trump has said that with Maduro deposed, the US will "run" Venezuela and secure its oil industry.
"The US military action in Venezuela is further evidence of the breakdown of the world order created after World War II," Fico said in a statement published on social media.
"International law does not apply, military force is used without a UN Security Council mandate, and everyone who is big and strong does whatever they want in promoting their own interests," he said.
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Fico added that as a leader of a small country, he rejects this sort of "subversion of international law," as he rejected the US invasion of Iraq, "the non-recognition of Kosovo as a sovereign state," the "use of Russian military force in Ukraine," as well as the assessment of the situation in Gaza.
The Slovak prime minister said he wondered how the EU would formally react to the US attack, which he said "deserves condemnation."
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas urged "restraint" in a post on X on Saturday, calling for adherence to the UN Charter.
Meanwhile, China and Russia have strongly condemned the US attacks.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has called the strikes and Maduro's capture an "unacceptable infringement on the sovereignty of an independent state," and called on Washington to release the Venezuelan president.
(RT.com)
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