Foreign Minister Carlos Faría expressed that the United States government seeks to establish relations with Venezuela without dismantling the sanctions regime that Washington applies to this country.
This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs during an interview with the head of Culture, Ernesto Villegas, broadcast on VTV.
“It was an initiative of the United States government to make this approach to President Nicolas Maduro to normalize the relationship, but not the diplomatic one, nor the dismantling of the sanctions, but in the reestablishment of the energy relationship because Washington is interested in it,” he said.
The foreign minister added that Venezuela hopes that the United States guides its relationship with Venezuela more clearly, with the window of opportunity that the November elections in the US represent.
“Midterm elections are awaited in the United States. It is said that President Biden is waiting for that to happen so that later, he can guide his relationship with our government in a clearer way. So we are waiting for that to happen,” said Carlos Faría.
He added that along this path it would be possible to hope that political relations between the two nations would be normalized.
“Feedback is awaited, the response to that very clear statement that the government of President Nicolás Maduro has given… I think it could happen, there are some political conditions that are being seen, the midterm elections in the United States and Joe Biden would be waiting to see the results,” he said.
“This is taking place at the initiative of the United States government without dismantling any sanctions applied by Washington to Caracas,” Faría stressed.
Venezuela and the United States broke their diplomatic relations in 2019. In March of this year, 2022, contacts were resumed when the Joe Biden administration sent a high-level delegation to Caracas that met with President Maduro.
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In the foreign minister’s opinion, the normalization of diplomatic relations between Colombia and Venezuela is already underway, since both governments have expressed their will, and proof of this is that the ambassadors of each nation are already working on cooperation and exchange policies.
He stressed that both countries work to continue protecting the common history, of unity and brotherhood, “we have to preserve good relations, preserve everything that may happen in the political sphere.”
He assured that in the short term, normalization will be achieved in all spaces and areas of economic policy, the good development of the meeting between Colombia and Venezuela, which will benefit both peoples.
