(ABNA24.com) Venezuela's top court has rejected a decision by the opposition-controlled legislature to rejoin a regional military treaty, saying the move could provide a legal framework for foreign military intervention in the Latin American country.
The Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) in Venezuela said on Friday that the National Assembly's decision to rejoin the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) had no legal basis.
"The court rules the decision of the legislature to rejoin the Inter-American Treaty on Reciprocal Assistance is null and does not have any legal force as it threatens the rule of law in the country," judge Juan Jose Mendoza said at a session broadcast on Twitter.
Any attempts to use this treaty "should be considered as a hostile action toward national sovereignty," Mendoza added.
The Venezuelan parliament controlled by the opposition approved on Tuesday the proposal to rejoin the TIAR, which was signed in 1947 in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro by 23 countries, including the United States.
The treaty stipulates that an attack against one signatory is considered as an attack against all other signatories as well.
President Nicolas Maduro's predecessor, late president Hugo Chavez, withdrew the country from the defense pact in 2012. Ecuador, Bolivia and Nicaragua also walked out of the treaty.
Opposition leader Juan Guaido, who oversees the defunct National Assembly, claimed on Tuesday that rejoining the treaty would allow Caracas to establish "international alliances" to "protect and defend the people and Venezuelan sovereignty."
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source : Pars Today
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28 July 2019
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Venezuela's top court has rejected a decision by the opposition-controlled legislature to rejoin a regional military treaty, saying the move could provide a legal framework for foreign military intervention in the Latin American country.