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The European Union (EU) recalled this Monday that it shares with the United States the "common goal" of putting an end to organized crime networks in the airspace, in relation to the campaign of its president, Donald Trump, against drug trafficking in the Caribbean and that he announced that he is preparing ground attacks in Venezuela.
"One point about this is that we share the common goal of dismantling organized crime networks in the airspace," said Community spokesperson Anitta Hipper during the European Commission's daily press briefing.
Specifically, this was his response to the question of whether the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security, Kaja Kallas, was going to address the situation in Venezuela with the U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
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The spokesperson added that it is not their place to "comment on the matter" and pointed to the recent statements by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which said last week that "each State has complete and exclusive sovereignty over the airspace above its territory", and that the decision to fly over an area "is the responsibility of the parties involved". Trump insisted last week that "very soon" attacks against drug cartels within Venezuelan territory will begin, which would be part of Operation South Spear, which has so far destroyed about twenty vessels in the Caribbean and the Pacific, leaving, according to the U.S., more than 80 people dead. Trump also recently told pilots and airlines that they should consider Venezuelan airspace "closed in its entirety".
