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Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al of the Unit­ed Na­tions, An­to­nio Guter­res, is warn­ing of the po­ten­tial for in­creased in­sta­bil­i­ty in Venezuela, fol­low­ing the Unit­ed States ac­tions on Sat­ur­day, which saw the coun­try’s pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro be­ing cap­tured and tak­en to the U.S. to face drug traf­fick­ing and oth­er charges in an Amer­i­can court.

In a state­ment de­liv­ered to the UN Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil ear­li­er to­day, Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Guter­res said he was “deeply con­cerned” by these de­vel­op­ments.

“I am deeply con­cerned about the pos­si­ble in­ten­si­fi­ca­tion of in­sta­bil­i­ty in the coun­try, the po­ten­tial im­pact on the re­gion, and the prece­dent it may set for how re­la­tions be­tween and among states are con­duct­ed,” he stat­ed.