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Furthermore, UN recognition of Mr Guaido would be deeply symbolic. His supporters hope that, by conferring an additional layer of legitimacy, the move would encourage wavering military members to defect.

The replacement of the Maduro delegation, headed since December 2017 by Oxford-educated Mr Moncada, Venezuelas former ambassador to the UK, could occur in two ways.

First, the group could present the credentials challenge to the nine-member UN Credentials Committee, which currently includes Antigua and Barbuda, Chile, China, Finland, Ghana, Palau, Russia, Sierra Leone, and the United States.

If a majority of the Credentials Committee voted to revoke the credentials of Mr Maduros delegation and to replace them with those of Mr Guaidos delegation, then the case would be brought before the General Assembly. A simple majority vote would be required there to affirm the Credential Committees recommendation.

Neither vote is subject to a veto by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.

Second, it would also be possible for the group of Member States to bypass the Credentials Committee entirely and to have the question considered as a separate agenda item of the General Assembly, where it would also require a majority vote.

The scale of the challenge was laid bare on Wednesday whenRaul Castro, who stepped down as Cuban president last year, used his first public appearance in three months to vow that his country would never abandon Venezuela.

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