Speaking for the annual gathering of heads of state at the United Nations General Assembly, Maduro said he supported a plan by proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin to create an international coalition to coordinate foreign military action in Syria.
Arguing that the Middle East is more more violent and unstable than it was before U.S.-led military interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, along with foreign military support of rebel groups in Syria, Maduro called on the U.N. to restrict the ability of powerful countries to wage war.
“We should take advantage, we believe, of the total and complete, tragic failure of these four wars,” Maduro said, drawing applause from the crowd.
“So that from the Security Council, from the United Nations, we can move forward toward creating new rules that prohibit the use of interventionist methods to bring war, to sow terror, to bring destruction and death to people who are declared by the elites of the world to be undesirable people or enemies.”
Some 250,000 people have died in Syria since the fighting broke out in 2011.
The violence there has fueled the largest refugee crisis facing Europe since World War II.
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