Irredentism and regime change have no place in International Law – Rauff Hakeem

It is noted with deep consternation that several states in Latin America, the Middle East and elsewhere are ominously threatened with military strikes and other forceful measures in potential violation of their respective sovereignty and territorial integrity, Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) leader Rauff Hakeem said.  

Issuing a statement, the SLMC leader said these threats have been made especially in the wake of the recent unlawful military incursions into Venezuela and the arrest and detention of the President of that country, carried out by the incumbent Trump Administration.   

“No country, however big or powerful, can flagrantly breach the international law and the UN Charter. The post-world war order, which by and large ensured global stability despite some persistent, yet unresolved, challenges to international peace and security, has been made more volatile by the ruthless, aggravated pursuit of self-serving geopolitical ambitions.   

Resource-plundering drive of the kind of geopolitics that is fleetingly at play today, runs diametrically counter to all international legal norms and established diplomatic practices.   

Strikingly, American foreign policy adventurism appears to have discarded its moral fig leaf which hid its true intentions behind regime change projects, irredentist inclinations, and proxy-led atrocities, and now openly and unashamedly claims ownership of, or control over, resources of other countries.