Mexico's statement at a UN Security Council meeting on Venezuela

Here is an excerpt of the remarks by Ambassador Hector Vasconcelos, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations, at the UN Security Council emergency meeting on Venezuela in New York on Monday:

The government of Mexico has already made its position clear with regard to our condemnation of the military aggression of Jan 3 against targets in the territory of Venezuela in clear violation of Article 2 of the Charter of the United Nations.

These actions must not be allowed as they constitute a severe blow to the Charter and to multilateralism.

Rhetoric pointing towards the escalation or expansion of military actions, including to other countries in our region, threatens regional stability.

Regime change by external actors and the application of extra-territorial measures are not only acts contrary to international law, but historically, all they've done is exacerbate conflicts and weakened the social and political fabric of nations.

The current violation of this fragile balance gravely endangers the political stability and the security of the region, as well as the well-being of our peoples. Those who justify these acts deny the independent history of Latin America and the Caribbean.