JOHANNESBURG - International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola says South Africa continues to stand on the side of principle.
He described the United States’ decision regarding Venezuela as a violation of the United Nations Charter.
US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and flew them out of the country on Saturday.
Lamola says international solidarity and collective action are what have brought stability to the world since the Second World War.
And therefore, he says they can not return to the period after the First World War, where there were no rules or a world based on international law.
"We have to continue to call for a world that is based on international law, that is governance, rules-based, because if we don't do so, some of the middle countries like ourselves, third-world countries, will have no say anywhere in the world," Lamola said.
"The mighty will always be right. But the rules-based society and the rule of law, it's a shade that must protect everyone, whether small or big."