Netherlands rejects Venezuela accusation

Amsterdam has rejected Caracas allegations that the US was using Dutch Caribbean islands to mount military operations against Venezuela.

Venezuela claimed on Thursday that the US military was using the bases in Aruba and Curacao to prepare for an act of “aggression.”

“The latest allegations by Venezuela that Curacao and Aruba are being used by the United States to prepare an attack against that country are unfair, baseless and fantastical,” said Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen.

Venezuela’s foreign ministry on Thursday called on the international community to condemn alleged incursions into its airspace by US military drones launched from Aruba and the Netherlands’ Antilles.

“The subsequent violation of Venezuelan airspace on the part of the US military aircraft … allows us to conclude that the warmongering US government, in league with the government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, is preparing an aggression against the territory and people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,” it said.