France condemns US operation to capture Maduro
France condemned the U.S. operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday, asserting that it violated international law and that solutions cannot be imposed from abroad.
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- Published Date: 06:36 | 03 January 2026
France on Saturday condemned the American operation that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, saying it undermined international law while no solution to the country's crisis can be imposed from the outside.
Maduro "gravely violated" the rights of Venezuelans, but the military operation that led to him being grabbed "contravenes the principle of non-use of force, which underpins international law", Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot wrote on X.
"No lasting political solution can be imposed from the outside", he said, warning that "the increasing violations" of this principle by permanent UN Security Council members "will have serious consequences for global security, sparing no one".
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