Lamola says US veto likely as UN Security Council set to grill Washington over Maduro arrest

Simon Nare

International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola has said that a United Nations Security Council meeting scheduled for Monday night will bring global scrutiny to the US military operation in Venezuela that led to the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.

Speaking on the sidelines of an ANC national executive committee meeting in the North West on Monday, Lamola said that the United States would most likely use its veto power to block any action against it, but added it was encouraging that the details would be aired publicly.

“Obviously the veto issues is always an obstacle in the UN Security Council, but the fact that this issue will be ventilated in the Security Council, the whole world will know what happened, how it happened, and this will enable the people of the world to act in unison and in solidarity, because they will now know