Statements by Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil following the Venezuelan Supreme Court's final declarations on the July 28 presidential elections. teleSUR
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00:00representing the diplomatic corps, what's been happening here in the
00:05electoral chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice. What's your message? Well,
00:09first, I want to thank the president of the Supreme Court of Justice, the
00:14president of the electoral chamber, who has exposed before the world and in
00:22Venezuela here, they were attending the whole diplomatic corps in
00:29Venezuela. And so the president closes an electoral process with this final
00:36judgment. And we have seen, at an international level, it has been close
00:43attention to this contentious appeal and the
00:51elections. We have received lots of congratulations about our electoral
00:58process. And also, as we have denounced, the coup d'etat that was attended in
01:04Venezuela, it was planned by overseas. And it is clear, it is
01:11described in the whole process as how it was held, the competencies that has the
01:20Supreme Court of Justice and the competencies of the National Electoral
01:23Council. And it is very important for the world to know that in Venezuela, it has
01:28triumphed the constitution of the Bolivarian Republic, and it has triumphed
01:34its constitution. Once again, we demand respect. We demand non-interference
01:41in our internal affairs. As you can see, live on TV, in TV, are matters that have
01:49a solution within the framework of our laws, our constitution. And we have
01:54reflected in the final judgment of the Supreme Court of Justice, after the
01:59auditing process, after the express labor, we have seen this in the peace in
02:07social and political daily life in Venezuela. And so the actions, the
02:13violent actions, committed by some criminal groups on July 20th and 31st,
02:22how peace was re-established, and this peace we are living is a by-product of
02:29the electoral result attached to the will of the Venezuelan people. We
02:35express the world this. Venezuela is continuing at peace. We are building
02:39peace, and the Venezuelan government has called to some dialogue at the level of
02:46economic and political sectors. We are going to go through an electoral process
02:55about the communes, and Venezuela is at peace and tranquility, and we have
02:59transmitted that to the whole world. Thank you very much.