The University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) has condemned this Sunday the U.S. bombing of Venezuela and the alleged “kidnapping” of President Nicolas Maduro, while calling for strict respect for international legality, fundamental rights and the role of multilateral institutions. The Balearic academic institution has thus established its position in one of the international conflicts that currently attracts most media attention.
In a communiqué approved by the Board of Directors, the university stresses that the military actions carried out unilaterally against a sovereign state, as well as the arrest of its head of state, cannot be understood as isolated events. In its opinion, these events are part of a broader process of weakening of the current international order, with consequences that transcend the specific case of Venezuela.
“Serious setback”
The UIB warns that the renunciation of international law and the bodies created to ensure compliance with it is “a serious setback” for peace, security and global coexistence, breaking the mechanisms of dialogue and cooperation between countries. According to the university, such actions favor unilateral imposition and the law of the strongest, to the detriment of the principles governing relations between states.
The communiqué stresses that when common norms are ignored or eroded, the consequences are directly transferred to the protection of human rights and the security of civilian populations, not only in Venezuela, but in the international community as a whole. In this context, the academic institution warns of the risk of normalizing actions outside international legal frameworks.
Finally, the Board of Directors of the UIB assures that in recent years there has been a “growing concern” about the repeated violation of international norms, accompanied by “deliberate and systematic” attempts to dismantle the multilateral system that sustains them. For the university, this scenario demands a firm response from the institutional and academic sphere in defense of international law.
