Former Venezuelan Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Dr. Milos Alcalay writes:

At the the same time, a plenary session of the EU Parliament condemned the Venezuelan government's summary expulsion from that country of Human Rights Watch (HRW) director Jose Miguel Vivanco and the possibly extra-judicial political killing of Christian Socialist (COPEI) student leader, Julio Soto.

As expected, President Hugo Chavez Frias' "revolutionary" administration immediately launched a series of insulting epithets targetting the European Parliament ... but the MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) immediately rejected the assault as "disinformation" agreeing with a call from Portugal's MEP Ribeiro e Castro that European Union countries should "not drop their pants" for the government of Hugo Chavez.

Romanian Liberal MEP, Renate Weber also rebutted an assertion from Venezuela's Vice Minister for Europe, Alexander Fleming who, in September, claimed that the European Parliament had refused to discuss the issue on the grounds that any vote would be "against the fight against corruption" in Venezuela. Weber said "What he (Fleming) is trying to do is to manipulate public opinion in Venezuela, and this is NOT worthy of a Vice Minister for Europe." She also referred to an assertion (also by Fleming) that Thursday's EU resolution "violated Venezuelan sovereignty" and responded "We reject any assertion that this EU resolution represents an attack against a country's sovereignty ... rather, it is an expression of respect and support for democracy and human rights for and on behalf of the Venezuelan people!"

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The EU Parliament also rebutted the Venezuelan Bolivarian (Chavez) administration's assertion that the 51-1 vote decision was NOT representative -- that it represented less than 0.7% of the total possible votes in a full plenary assembly -- adding that the Venezuelan argument was riddled with holes since resolutions emergency were discussed at various levels of the EU Parliament over the two weeks previous to Thursday's plenary session.

Milos Alcalay
milosalcalay@yahoo.com

Editor's note: VHeadline has made diligent and painstaking attempts over the last four days, inviting Ambassador Fleming and/or any government spokesperson to state the government's point of view both here at VHeadline Venezuelan News' English and Spanish editions as well as exclusively on the VHeadline Venezuelan Newshour on the American Voice Radio Network (AVRN). Regrettablt, but NOT unusually, the responsible Venezuelan diplomatic representative has NOT deigned to respond to our responsible ans democratic invitations or to our queries.

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