Venezuela asks UN human rights staff to leave country amid review

FILE PHOTO: Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro, speaks during a meeting with United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk at Miraflores Palace, in Caracas, Venezuela January 27, 2023. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/File Photo

CARACAS (Reuters) -Venezuela's government has asked staff from the United Nations' human rights body to leave the country within three days, saying it will conduct a revision of its cooperation with the organization, with the UN saying it would evaluate next steps.

The South American country's government said it had made a decision "to suspend the activities of the technical advisory office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and carry out a holistic revision of the technical cooperation terms."