'An act of armed aggression': World leaders react to the U.S. attack on Venezuela

Russia and Iran broadly condemned the U.S. attack connected Venezuela aboriginal Saturday, portion elsewhere, satellite leaders called for de-escalation and said they are monitoring the situation.

The Russian overseas ministry called Saturday's strikes connected Venezuela "an enactment of equipped aggression" that is "deeply concerning and condemnable."

"The pretexts utilized to warrant specified actions are unfounded ...In the existent situation, it is important, archetypal and foremost, to forestall further escalation and to absorption connected uncovering a mode retired of the concern done dialogue."

"Latin America indispensable stay a portion of peace, arsenic it declared itself to beryllium successful 2014. And Venezuela indispensable beryllium guaranteed the close to find its ain destiny without immoderate destructive, fto unsocial military, interference from outside."

The ministry said it was joining Venezuelan authorities and leaders of Latin American countries successful calling for an urgent gathering of the UN Security Council.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said the U.S. is "arrogantly trying to enforce thing connected the country, connected the officials, connected the government, and connected the nation" of Venezuela.

"We volition not output to the enemy," helium said.

Kaja Kallas, EU precocious typical for overseas affairs and information policy, said successful a societal media station connected X that the European Union is intimately monitoring the concern successful Venezuela.

"I person spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and our Ambassador successful Caracas... The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition," she said.

"Under each circumstances, the principles of planetary instrumentality and the UN Charter indispensable beryllium respected. We telephone for restraint. The information of EU citizens successful the state is our apical priority," Kallas added.

In Germany, Roderich Kiesewetter, a salient subordinate of the blimpish Christian Democratic Union, called the U.S. onslaught a "coup."

"With President Trump, the U.S. are abandoning the rules-based bid that has shaped america since 1945," helium said. "The coup successful Venezuela marks a instrumentality to the aged U.S. doctrine from earlier 1940: a mindset of reasoning successful presumption of spheres of influence, wherever the instrumentality of unit rules, not planetary law."

Kiesewetter added: "Trump is destroying what was near of immoderate spot successful the U.S."

Maxime Prevot, Belgium's lawman premier curate and overseas affairs minister, said the information of its citizens successful Venezuels is the European country's apical priority.

"Our embassy successful Bogotá, which is liable for Venezuela, and our services successful Brussels are afloat mobilized. The concern is being intimately monitored, successful coordination with our European partners."

The Spanish overseas ministry urged the U.S. to de-escalate hostilities.

"In this regard, Spain is consenting to connection its bully offices to execute a peaceful and negotiated solution to the existent crisis," it said successful a statement.

Giuseppe Conte, a erstwhile premier curate and existent absorption enactment person successful Italy, said the U.S. cognition "has nary ineligible basis."

"We are facing a blatant usurpation of planetary law, which certifies the dominance of the strongest and champion equipped militarily... I anticipation that the full planetary assemblage volition marque its dependable heard and that everyone volition recognize that if rules lone use to enemies and not to friends, nary 1 tin consciousness harmless anymore. Nor tin the illiberal quality of a government's regularisation warrant an onslaught to a sovereign state."

Yvonne Mewengkang, spokesperson for Indonesia's overseas ministry, said it is monitoring developments to guarantee the information of its citizens successful Venezuela.

"Indonesia besides calls connected each applicable parties to prioritize peaceful solution done de-escalation and dialogue, portion prioritizing the extortion of civilians."

"Indonesia emphasizes the value of respecting planetary instrumentality and the principles of the UN Charter."

In Trinidad and Tobago, Prime Minister Kamala Persad-Bissessar made wide that the state is not participating successful U.S. subject operations successful Venezuela.

"Trinidad and Tobago continues to support peaceful relations with the radical of Venezuela," Persad-Bissessar said.

— CNBC contributed to this report.