La Paz, Feb 12 (EFE).- The former president of Bolivia Evo Morales (2006-2019) expressed this Monday his solidarity with the Government of Nicolás Maduro regarding the transfer from Buenos Aires to the United States of the plane of the Venezuelan airline Emtrasur Cargo that It arrived in Argentina in June 2022 with Venezuelan and Iranian crew members suspected of espionage, and which the former ruler described as “robbery.”

“The theft of the Emtrasur plane, taken by the United States government from the Venezuelan people, is further proof that they have no respect for international law. We condemn this fact and stand in solidarity with the government of the brother president @NicolasMaduro” Morales wrote on the social network X.

The also leader of the government Movement towards Socialism (MAS), who was also a political ally of the late Hugo Chávez, added that “no action or aggression will weaken the Bolivarian Revolution.”

The Boeing 747 arrived this Monday in the southern district of Florida from the Buenos Aires International Airport, in the town of Ezeiza.

The aircraft was owned by the Iranian company Mahan Air and currently belongs to Emtrasur Cargo, a subsidiary of the Venezuelan state-owned Conviasa, companies that are sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury.

The plane arrived in Argentina on June 6, 2022 with a crew of five Iranians and fourteen Venezuelans, who were initially detained by the Argentine Justice and released due to lack of evidence in the crime of financing terrorist activities.

The Argentine Justice had ordered the confiscation of the plane at the beginning of this year in response to a request made in October 2022 by the Court of the District of Columbia of the United States, which asked the Argentine authorities to confiscate the aircraft, which is the subject of investigation. for possible links to international terrorism.

The justification for the claim by the United States is that it was an Iranian entity sanctioned by the Department of Commerce of the North American country that transferred the plane – made in the United States – to a third party, something prohibited precisely for the purposes of the sanction.

On February 11, the Argentine Government transferred custody of the aircraft to the United States in compliance with an order from the District of Columbia Court.

After learning that the aircraft left Buenos Aires this morning, the Government of Venezuela warned that it will give a “forceful, direct and proportionate response to this attack, for which it will use all available resources within the framework of the national Constitution, diplomacy and International right”.

By: EFE

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North Macedonia started at midnight to fine its citizens who use non-replaced passports and driver’s licenses, even though the authorities failed to meet the deadline for replacing them.

According to the Prespa Treaty signed between Skopje and Athens in 2018, North Macedonia had until February 13 to replace all identity documents to reflect the change of its official name from the Republic of Macedonia to the Republic of North Macedonia.

However, this was not done and the political parties are blaming each other for the reasons

BTA reports that according to the Ministry of the Interior, only documents with the new name of the state will be accepted as valid.

North Macedonia will not be able to change the identity documents in time

President Stevo Pendarovski objected to citizens being fined for unchanged driver’s licenses, which they pay for themselves. He called on parliamentary parties to immediately pass changes to the Road Safety Act so that the old license plates can be used until they expire.

“No one can be punished for an unreplaced driver’s license, which did not happen through the fault of the citizens,” said the announcement from Pendarovski’s office.

Deputies from the ruling SDSM declared that they would introduce such amendments. The same was announced by the opposition VMRO-DPMNE, whose representative is Interior Minister Panche Toshkovski.

The minister explained that if the old passports were to be declared invalid at midnight, it would violate the European Convention on Human Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the constitution and decisions already made by the (European Court of Human Rights in) Strasbourg, because in practice it will mean a ban on the free movement of people.

In a message from VMRO-DPMNE earlier today, they blamed the Minister of Internal Affairs in the government of Dimitar Kovachevski, Oliver Spasovski, for the chaos created by the replacement of documents.

“For nine years (SDSM) had an interior minister. Spasovski should bear criminal responsibility for exposing the citizens to additional costs and despite knowing that the documents had to be changed, he did nothing regarding it.” says in the announcement of VMRO-DPMNE.

Media in North Macedonia also report tension at the technical points where stickers with NMK (North Macedonia) can be placed on car registration plates, the deadline for which also expires on Monday.

The issue of personal documents has also become a leading issue during the ongoing parliamentary debates on voting for new ministers in the technical government.

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