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By contrast, out of 120 reports in this session, there is not one for the desperately hungry victims of Venezuela’s government, which is a dictatorship.

And so I ask this Council: Do you truly believe in universality and non-selectivity, as promised in your founding charter?

In particular, I wish to ask you, Madam Elver, about your mandate to fight hunger.

Why is it, that in the annual report you presented just now, out of eleven thousand and fifty eight words (11,058), there is not one—not one word—for the millions of Venezuelans who can’t get enough to eat?

Why is it that you wrote three country reports this year, but not one for the desperately hungry families of Venezuela?

Why is it that in all of your 9 reports since 2015, you failed to write one—not one—about Venezuelan children now suffering acute malnutrition?

Are you not aware that, according to the WHO, the malnutrition is now well above the 10 percent threshold for a food crisis?

Why is it, according to the database of country visits, you never even attempted to request a visit to Venezuela?

Madam Elver, if your mandate is to defend hungry people, why have you refused to write a report, or call for an urgent debate or commission of inquiry, for families who are now forced to adopt emergency strategies, of the kind used during famine in war-torn countries?

Are you not aware that thirty-four percent are either selling assets to buy food, eat from garbage bins, or sending a child to beg for food?

But it’s worse. Madam Elver, you have actually tweeted to defend the perpetrator. For example, on August 14, 2016, you tweeted 2 articles from the propaganda site Telesur, one of which said: “No, there is not hunger in Venezuela; actually, as defined by international standards, Venezuela’s still quite high up.”
https://www.unwatch.org/hunger-in-venezuela/

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