Rubio denies UK has stopped sharing intel over Caribbean strikes
“I’m not going to go into great detail other than to say that it’s a false story,” Rubio told reporters following a G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Canada.
When questioned about European worries that the strikes may violate international law, he said, “I don’t think that the European Union gets to determine what international law is. They certainly don’t get to determine how the United States defends its national security.”
Rubio defended the operations, stating, “The United States is under attack from organized criminal narco-terrorists in our hemisphere, and the president is responding in defense of our country.”
He further highlighted what he described as a double standard, noting that European allies seek US deployment of nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles to protect Europe, yet object when the US positions aircraft carriers in the Western Hemisphere.
According to reports, British officials have raised concerns that the US strikes, which have killed at least 76 people since September, may breach international law. The UN human rights chief, Volker Turk, also condemned the attacks as “unacceptable” and called for an independent investigation into the alleged extrajudicial killings.
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