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Judge SANG-HYUN SONG
PRESIDENT OF THE The Hague Netherlands Dear Sir,
WILLIAMS CÁRDENAS RUBIO, Venezuelan lawyer, acting on behalf of the Democratic Platform of Venezuelans in Madrid, with headquarters in Madrid, Spain, with the backing of the 53 non-government organizations identified in the attached list, making up the International Campaign “Juzgar a Chávez”, I write to you most respectfully in order to state as follows: On 31 March of this year, in the city of Doha, Emirate of Qatar, the President of Venezuela, Mr. Hugo Chávez Frías, invited to Caracas the President of Sudan, Mr. Omar Al Bashir, against whom this respectable Court issued an arrest warrant on 4 March, for his presumed responsibility in the committing of crimes against humanity in the region of Darfur. It is evident that the invitation extended by the President of Venezuela constitutes an attempt to prevent the International Criminal Court from being able to exercise its functions and duties in conformity with the Rome Statute, since the notification to Party States of the arrest warrant issued by the Preliminary Questions Court I in the Case: “Prosecutor v. Omar Hassan Al Bashir” has been ordered in accordance with the provisions of rule 31 of the Court Regulations. Likewise, that declaration made by the President of Venezuela, which is a Party State of the International Criminal Court, whose Statute it signed, approved and ratified, violates the general obligation to cooperate with the Court under article 86 of the Rome Statute. The conduct of Hugo Chávez could be on account of the fact that two preliminary investigations have been opened by the Prosecutor’s Office of the ICC as a consequence of the accusations that we have presented it with, known as “Venezuela Case” and “External support for the FARC”, in which the criminal responsibility of the Venezuelan president could find itself compromised, and so he has commenced a defensive strategy of launching preventive attacks which, fruitlessly, seek to deny the jurisdictional competence of the Court. The proof of what Hugo Chávez has stated does not require any special investigation, since it concerns a public declaration of President Hugo Chávez, widely disseminated by the national and international communications media. The situation that the Court is investigating in relation to the President of Sudan, in which the said arrest warrant has been issued, was referred to the Prosecutor’s Office of the ICC by the United Nations Security Council, by means of its Resolution Nº 1593, of 31 March 2005. For that reason, we most respectfully ask this Court to act in conformity with the provisions of article 87, paragraph 7, of the Rome Statute, ordering that this question be referred to the United Nations Security Council in order to establish the responsibilities and sanctions as appropriate. I would like to take the occasion to inform you that you are assured of our greatest respect and most distinguished consideration. Madrid, 2 April 2009
Williams Cárdenas Rubio IPSA Nº 20.408 Democratic Platform of Venezuelans in Madrid. International Campaign “Juzgar a Chávez”.
C/C - To Judge AKUA KUENYEHIA Judge and President of the Preliminary Questions Court I. International Criminal Court The Hague
- To Ambassador CLAUDE HELLER President of the United Nations Security Council
LISTA ANEXA:
Campaña Internacional "Juzgar a Chávez"
ONG´s que la integran:
1- Plataforma Democrática de Venezolanos en Madrid (PDVM)
2- Frente Iberoamericano por la Libertad (FIAL)
3 - Asociación de Madres y Mujeres Venezolanas en el Exilio (AMAVEX)
4- Resistencia Civil de Venezolanos en el Exterior (RECIVEX)
5-Asociación Venezolana de Desplazados (AVD)
6- Centro de Estudios Democráticos para Iberoamérica y el Caribe (CEDIC)
7-Frente Patriótico
8- Bloque Democrático
9- Frente Institucional Militar
10- Foro de Caracas
11- Fundación Orión
12- Alianza Popular
13- Unapetrol
14- Gente de Petróleo
15- Free Venezuela Center for Democracy in the Americas
16- International Venezuelan Council for Democracy (IVCD)
17- Participación Venezuela
18- Social Artistry Venezuela SA-VE
19- Venered
20- Venezuela Somos Todos 21- Lucha Democrática
22- Primero Justicia Región Exterior
23- Venezolanos en México
24- Venezolanos en Chile
25- Venezuelan for Democracy
26- Venezolanos en Bélgica
27- Libertad y Democracia en Berlín
28- Diálogo por Venezuela-Francia
29- Cubalíbera
30-Mujeres por la Libertad
31- Mujeres x Venezuela
32- Fuerza Liberal
33- Movimiento Ecológico de Venezuela, AC, ORG
34- Vecinos en Acción.ORG
35- Cumbre Patriótica del Presidio Político Cubano.ORG
36- Asociación Hispano Venezolana de Cooperación.ORG
37- Movimiento Social & Ecologista Rescatando a Portuguesa.ORG
38- Fundación Ambiental de Venezuela AVE ¨Kathy Phelps ORG
39- Asociación Civil de Desarrollo Ambiental
40- Asociación Patriótica "José Martí " ORG
41- Fuerza Solidaria ORG
42- Junta Patriótica Cubana
43- Unidad Hondureña
44- Movimiento Nacionalista Contrarrevolucionario de Venezuela, MNCRV
45- Foro de Líderes por la Libertad (FLL)
46- Grupo Lucha por la Democracia (GPL)
47- Movimiento de Recuperación Revolucionaria (MRR) 48- Red Nacional de Asambleas de Ciudadanos (RNAC)
49- Congreso Federal de Organizaciones Ciudadanas de Venezuela.
50- Libertad y Democrácia.org. 51- Poder Juvenil Demócrata-Bolivia
52-Fundaven
53-Unidos Por Venezuela Y América
54- Movimiento Republicano de Venezuela.
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