Gustavo Petro, president of Colombia, said that together with Lula, Alberto Fernández and Emmanuel Macron, there will be a meeting with the Venezuelan delegations to relaunch an initiative that seeks to solve the country’s crisis
The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, announced this Monday, July 17, before starting the first day of the EU-Celac Summit in Brussels, that apart from the main event, they will seek to relaunch the dialogue between the political factions in Venezuela. ; which has been suspended since November 2022.
Asked by the journalists, Petro indicated that it is “one more meeting with the president of France and the Latin American countries,” which according to the portal We monitor would correspond to Colombia; Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from Brazil and Alberto Fernández from Argentina.
He insisted that the intention is to “re-acclimate a process” that allows a democratic agreement to be reached through dialogue between the different factions of society in Venezuela.
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Gustavo Petro said that his country is willing to dialogue and is ready to make room for an initiative like this, since Venezuela is the guarantor of two peace processes and has also provided itself as a venue for talks to take place.
“We are willing to be a space for a political dialogue on Venezuela,” declared President Petro, who said that the objective of today’s meeting is to once again promote the conversation between the different sectors of the neighboring country. pic.twitter.com/5MYEPAT8Fn
– BluRadio Colombia (@BluRadioCo) July 17, 2023
Earlier, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez – who is in Belgium representing Venezuela despite having a sanction that prevents her from entering the Schengen area – urged that the “criminal blockade” against the country be lifted.
“We come with great hope to bring the message of Venezuela, the lifting of the criminal blockade against our country, so we bring from President Nicolás Maduro a message of peace, harmony, cooperation, which must be the path that follows and that guide our countries,” Rodríguez declared.
He added that Venezuela aspires to “paths of peace for all the countries of the world” and to “genuine, true cooperation that is fruitful for the people, the people who are in the streets, who expect something from their rulers.”
The European Union itself agreed last year to extend until November 14 the sanctions imposed on various officials and members of the Venezuelan Government.
At the end of April, the high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, affirmed that the community bloc is willing to review the personal sanctions against senior Chavismo officials if “democratic normalization” advances in Venezuela and there are “free, transparent and inclusive elections”.
With additional information from EFE
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