The Venezuelan government says the levels of people leaving the country are "normal".
UN figures suggest that 2.3 million people have fled Venezuela's economic and political crisis since 2014.
Vice-President Delcy Rodríguez said the figures had been inflated by "enemy countries" trying to justify a military intervention. Ms Rodríguez said the government had complained to the UN Secretary-General António Guterres about "individual officials" who she said had been portraying "a normal migratory flow as a humanitarian crisis to justify an intervention". Rodríguez said that the United Nations had used data provided by "enemy countries" and presented it "as if it was their own".
Rodríguez did not say how many Venezuelans had left the country, President Maduro himself put the number at "no more than 600,000 in the last two years according to confirmed, certified, serious figures". However, he did not give details about the source of that figure.
She went on to accuse neighbouring Colombia of asking for international funds ostensibly to deal with Venezuelan migrants on its border, when its real plan was to "live off" the donations.
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