Caracas (EFE).- The Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, affirmed this Sunday that the office of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that will be installed in the Caribbean nation will serve for “inter-institutional unity”, as well as for cooperation and technical assistance.
“It is for training, technical advice, inter-institutional unity,” Saab explained in an interview in the private media Venevisión.
Likewise, he said that the Venezuelan State has the “clear intention” to do justice without a “transnational entity” doing so and that is what he wanted to demonstrate before the ICC Preliminary Questions Chamber.
The official insisted that this office will have as its main objective technical assistance, training and cooperation, within what is complementarity.
More justice in Venezuela, the objective of the ICC
On Friday, the ICC prosecutor, Karim Khan, confirmed the opening of a technical assistance office in Venezuela, with the signing of a memorandum of understanding signed in Caracas with President Nicolás Maduro.
The prosecutor announced that he and his team visited the premises where the office will operate, a step that, he assured, will allow greater collaboration “to guarantee that there is more justice” in Venezuela, where in March 2022 they had already committed themselves, so verbally, to open this office.
In November 2022, Khan asked the Preliminary Questions Chamber for authorization to continue the investigation into the alleged crimes against humanity in Venezuela -opened in 2021-, after it was suspended at the request of Caracas.
In April of this year, Venezuela accused Khan of “instrumentalizing” Justice “for political purposes”, after the publication of a document in which the ICC Prosecutor dismissed the arguments presented by the Maduro government regarding the investigation. .