One of Australia’s leading legal experts says the Trump administration’s challenge to international law in toppling Venezuela’s president should put Canberra on guard over the readiness of its key security ally to resort to military means to achieve political goals.
Donald Rothwell, a professor of international law at Australian National University, assessed the US had contravened Article 2 (4) of the United Nations Charter when it snatched Nicolas Maduro and his wife in a weekend raid and whisked them to New York to face criminal charges.
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