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Venezuela
A combined view of Venezuela's UN General Assembly speeches, treaty commitments, and voting record.
The narrative paragraphs below are AI-generated syntheses of the data shown — the tables and figures themselves come directly from the underlying records, not from the AI.
Compare with another country →Speech history
Venezuela's General Assembly rhetoric has remained consistently fiery and ideologically driven across the decade, with anti-imperialist denunciations of U.S. unilateralism and calls for multipolar UN reform as enduring themes. Emotional intensity has remained extraordinarily high throughout (78–97 scale), though it peaked in 2006, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019, and 2024. However, self-accountability scores have trended downward over time, falling from 54 in 2008 to 15 in 2024, while multilateralism has oscillated sharply—from a high of 62 in 2014 to lows of 22 in 2013 and 2024—reflecting a pattern of grievance-centered rhetoric that increasingly frames Venezuela as a victim of external aggression rather than as a participant in collective problem-solving.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Medium | Very High | Medium | Low |
| 2008 | Low | Very High | Medium | Medium |
| 2010 | Medium | High | High | Medium |
| 2013 | Low | Very High | Low | Low |
| 2014 | High | Very High | Medium | Medium |
| 2018 | Medium | Very High | Medium | Low |
| 2019 | Low | Very High | High | Very Low |
| 2023 | Medium | High | Medium | Low |
| 2024 | Low | Very High | High | Very Low |
| 2025 | Low | Very High | Low | Low |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Venezuela has demonstrated strong and consistent commitment to environmental and human rights treaties, ratifying all tracked instruments in those categories save one (the Minamata Convention, which remains signed but unratified). The country has also ratified key arms control treaties and international justice instruments, including the Rome Statute and both conventions against corruption and organized crime. However, Venezuela has taken no action on the Arms Trade Treaty or the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, marking conspicuous abstentions that align with its broader posture of selective multilateral engagement on sovereignty-sensitive matters.
Arms control & security
- Arms Trade TreatyNo action
- Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban TreatyRatified
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their DestructionRatified
- Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear WeaponsRatified
Environment & climate
- Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their DisposalRatified
- Convention on Biological DiversityRatified
- Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
- Minamata Convention on MercurySigned, not ratified
- Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Paris AgreementRatified
- Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International TradeRatified
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic PollutantsRatified
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in AfricaRatified
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
Human rights
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or PunishmentRatified
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against WomenRatified
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesRatified
- Convention on the Rights of the ChildRatified
- International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsRatified
International justice
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal CourtRatified
Trade & governance
- United Nations Convention against CorruptionRatified
- United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeRatified
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the SeaNo action
Voting record
Full voting record →Venezuela has voted affirmatively on the vast majority of General Assembly resolutions (4,701 yes votes of 5,694 total), but its rare dissents reveal principled departures on specific issues: it voted against agricultural technology resolutions (2011, 2019), an oceans and law of the sea resolution (2016), a Gaza ceasefire resolution (2009), and Libya's Human Rights Council restoration (2011). These dissents suggest Venezuelan resistance to certain consensus positions on development frameworks, maritime governance, regional interventions, and international institutional legitimacy, reflecting ideological and geopolitical alignments that periodically override General Assembly consensus.
Notable dissents from consensus
Oceans and the law of the sea : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2016-12-23 · voted N · 99% voted yes
Agricultural technology for sustainable development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2019-12-19 · voted N · 99% voted yes
Agricultural technology for development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2011-12-22 · voted N · 99% voted yes
General Assembly resolution supporting the immediate ceasefire according to Security Council resolution 1860 (2009) : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2009-01-16 · voted N · 97% voted yes
Restoration of the rights of membership of Libya in the Human Rights Council : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2011-11-18 · voted N · 97% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.709 (High), ranked #121 globally in 2023.
Combines life expectancy, education, and income into one comparable score, 0 to 1. Source: UNDP Human Development Report 2025 — deterministic figures, not AI-generated.
1990–2023