CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The U.N. Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting late Friday at Venezuela’s request on U.S. military actions in recent weeks in the waters off the South American country against what Washington calls drug traffickers.

Venezuela made the request in a letter addressed to Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia, the current council president, accusing the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump of seeking to topple Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and threatening “peace, security and stability regionally and internationally.”

The council scheduled the meeting at 3 p.m. EDT.

Maduro’s government also expressed its expectation of an “armed attack” against Venezuela in “a very short time.”

The request came a day after members of Congress voted down

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