Western Hemisphere
Venezuela's Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro described on Thursday night the protest note delivered by Colombia to the UN Security Council as a "script of disgusting lies." Colombia sent this week a letter to the United Nations denouncing the warlike "threats" made by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

"(The protest note) will not have any direct effect" in the Security Council of the United Nations. "It is a document that will fall on deaf ears," said the diplomat. Maduro added that the "whole structure of the letter is a script aimed at spreading dirty war, a political war against Venezuela," state-run TV network Venezolana de Televisión reported.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister termed the protest note "a bunch of lies put together" in the Empire (United States).

With "all these manipulations and inventions," the government of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe "tries to justify the unjustifiable: the complete surrender of Colombia" to the United States to "transform it in a platform of the US armed forces."