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Helen Corbett

Cooper says she raised international law with US over Venezuela

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper making a statement in the House of Commons, London, after a US military operation in Venezuela over the weekend to capture leader Nicolas Maduro (House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA) - (PA Wire)

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has said she raised the importance of international law with her US counterpart after President Donald Trump’s intervention in Venezuela.

But she stopped short of saying whether the military action that saw Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro captured and taken to New York was a breach of such laws and told MPs it was for the US to set out the legal basis for the move.

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