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UN and Venezuela Agree Closer Cooperation on Human Rights

Agence France-Presse

   GENEVA - The United Nations said Tuesday that it will be permitted to
   more closely monitor the human rights situation in crisis-torn
   Venezuela after signing an agreement with Caracas to tighten
   cooperation.

   UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge
   Arreaza signed a Memorandum of Understanding on September 20
   establishing "a framework for future discussion and cooperation", the
   UN said in a statement.

   The deal among other things provides for a team of two UN rights
   officers to settle in the country, which is caught in an economic
   crisis and a political standoff between President Nicolas Maduro's
   government and National Assembly leader Juan Guaido.

   "I and my office are committed to working closely with the authorities,
   as well as with civil society organizations, to promote and protect the
   human rights and fundamental liberties of everyone in the country,"
   Bachelet said in the statement.
   

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