{"id":61703,"date":"2020-02-12T12:37:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T04:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61703"},"modified":"2020-02-12T12:37:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T04:37:17","slug":"us-sanctions-against-venezuelan-state-airline-violate-international-law-aviation-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61703","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions against Venezuelan state airline violate international law: aviation agency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/havanatimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Conviasae190.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167012\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>CARACAS, Feb 12 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; US sanctions against Venezuela&#8217;s state-owned airline Conviasa violate international law, said Jorge Alvarez, president of the Chamber of Venezuelan Air Transport Companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only organization with the power to stop a carrier from flying from one country to another is the International Civil Aviation Organization, Alvarez told a local radio station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;From a strategic viewpoint, Conviasa flies to a series of destinations that our country&#8217;s executive branch considers to be fundamental,&#8221; said Alvarez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sanctions coupled with Venezuela&#8217;s already crisis-hit economy make it &#8220;very difficult to find all of the spare parts that guarantee the functioning of the fleet. That affects the country&#8217;s connectivity,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past two years, Venezuela&#8217;s air traffic has fallen 57 percent despite the efforts of the National Civil Aviation Institute to keep the sector going, said Alvarez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions against Conviasa on Feb 7, and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said his country will file a lawsuit at the International Court of Justice &#8220;for the damage caused by the unilateral sanctions.&#8221; &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARACAS, Feb 12 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; US sanctions against Venezuela&#8217;s state-owned airline Conviasa violate international law, said Jorge Alvarez, president of the Chamber of Venezuelan Air Transport Companies. The only organization with the power to stop a carrier from flying from one country to another is the International Civil Aviation Organization, Alvarez told a local radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61703"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}