“We just heard statements of Donald Trump saying that he will consider to make Venezuela the 51st state,” Rodriguez told reporters at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Anadolu Agency reported.
“We love our process of independence, we love our heroes of independence, and we will continue defending the integrity, the sovereignty, the independence, our history, which is a history of glories of men and women that gave their life to make sure that we were not colonies, but our independent country,” she added.
Her remarks came after Trump made the comments in an interview with Fox News.
Following the kidnapping of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from his home in Caracas to the US in early January, Trump has claimed that he is “getting along very well with Venezuela".