*U.S. denies its airspace (that of Puerto Rico) for the flight of President Maduro to China* * * *By: Agencies Aporrea.org*
Caracas, September 19 - Foreign Minister Elias Jaua announced Thursday that the United States banned the plane that was to fly President Nicolas Maduro by its airspace on the route of his journey to China. "We have received information from U.S. authorities that we have been denied the flight over U.S. airspace," said Jaua this afternoon to the media in the Yellow House, where he held a meeting with the Foreign Minister of South Africa . "We denounce this as a more aggressive U.S. imperialism against the Government of the Bolivarian Republic" settled. "Nobody can deny overflight aircraft transporting a President on a journey of international state," the Chancellor said that while "there is no valid argument for denying that flyby, so we denounce as a aggression ". Maduro's trip to China remains: seek other routes After ensuring that this prohibition is not going "to prevent us to travel to the Republic of China", let them know that they are "looking for other flight options, but we reserve the measures at all levels that we have to take if the U.S. government , its aeronautical authorities, not rectified in this new assault on Venezuela's sovereignty. " Despite this new episode in the strained relations between Washington and Caracas, Venezuela's Foreign Minister said he expects a correction by the U.S. government.
