OPEN LETTER TO THE UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL ANTONIO
GUTERRES

AND TO THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS MICHELLE
BACHELET

from Alfred de Zayas,
23 February 2019

Dear Michelle Bachelet,

dear Antonio Guterres

As former UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a
Democratic and Equitable International Order (2012-2018) I would like to urge
you to once again make your voices heard and make concrete proposals for
mediation and peace in the context of the Venezuelan crisis.

The most noble task of the United Nations is to create the
conditions conducive to local, regional and international peace, to work
preventively and tirelessly to avoid armed conflicts, to mediate and negotiate
to reach peaceful solutions, so that all human beings can live in human dignity
and in the enjoyment of the human right to peace and all other civil, cultural,
economic, political and social rights. I
am particularly worried by the…