Denouncing the Maduro regime’s efforts to hold fraudulent legislative elections, the absence of acceptable conditions to ensure free, fair, and transparent electoral processes in Venezuela, and the further erosion of Venezuelan democracy.

denounces efforts by the Maduro regime to hold fraudulent legislative elections in an effort to undermine Venezuela’s democratically elected National Assembly;

joins members of the international community, including members of the Lima Group and the majority of member states of the Organization of American States, in rightfully rejecting the Maduro’s regime efforts to carry out fraudulent legislative elections;

urges that presidential and legislative elections in Venezuela be conducted at the earliest possible date according to international standards for free, fair, and transparent electoral processes, including credible international election observation;

calls on the Maduro regime to cease its campaign of systematic persecution against Venezuela’s independent political parties and their leadership;

calls on the Maduro regime to immediately release all political prisoners, facilitate access by humanitarian organizations, and end its campaign of extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances, torture, and arbitrary detentions of political opponents, human rights defenders, civil society activists, peaceful protesters, and citizens; and

takes note of the finding of the United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela that the Maduro regime’s campaign of state-sponsored violence and repression against the people of Venezuela amounted to crimes against humanity, and calls for Nicolás Maduro and senior members of his regime to be held accountable for their actions.