Venezuela on Tuesday rejected an accusation made by the United States over alleged negligence in tackling human trafficking.

The Venezuelan permanent mission in the United Nations expressed its dissatisfaction over the US decision not to provide certain funding for Venezuela in the 2005 fiscal year after the USState Department said President Hugo Chavez's government had failed to effectively crack down on trafficking in persons.

The Venezuelan mission described the US evaluation of Venezuela's combat against organized crime as unjustified and unusual, saida communique issued in Caracas.

The Venezuelan government described it as part of a "hostility of the unilateralism" from Washington against a country that has signed on international agreements against human trafficking.

The communique said Venezuela has laws against the crime of human trafficking.

Venezuela is a signatory to the UN Convention Against OrganizedTransnational Crime and the Protocol to Prevent and Penalize HumanTrafficking, but the United States is not.

"Such a situation does not lead to an improvement of the relations between Venezuela and the United States and constitutes a new form of aggression against Venezuelan sovereignty. We cannotbut firmly reject as it goes against international laws and respect among the states," the communique added.

The mission said that it will only provide updated information in line with international agreements on the issue to the United Nations.

Source: Xinhua