Venezuela's Chávez deplores involvement in Libya

Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez forwarded a letter to the United Nations General Assembly lambasting the United States and NATO for their military involvement in Libya and for the attempts at extending the "imperialist format."

Nicolás Maduro, his Minister of Foreign Affairs, read over to the UN plenary session the letter authored by Chávez, currently under cancer treatment, Efe reported.

In his letter, the Venezuelan Head of State expresses his "reflections for the democratic debate of our world and for the increasing process of necessary change and recreation" of the UN.

Chávez averred that wars have sprouted since 1945 and "sadly" the UN "has ended vouching, sometimes by act or omission, for the most merciless injustices."

The United States, he maintained, is the only country that "sows the planet with military bases." In addition, Chávez accused it of having "unleashed so many wars, thus violating the sovereignty of many nations."