Santo Domingo.- The President of the Republic, Luis Abinaderresponded on Monday to the statement from the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry, which withdrew its personnel from the country and demands that the Caribbean nation withdraw its personnel from Venezuelan soil.
Abinader said he accepts the decision, but that he will remain firm in the defense of democracy, even beyond his presidential term.
“We do not have an ambassador in Venezuela, we abide by that decision and we will continue to see what we are going to do, what we will never do is renounce our principles of fighting for democracy,” said Abinader in La Semanal con la Prensa.
The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry issued a statement ordering the withdrawal of diplomatic personnel from Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Uruguay and the Dominican Republic, accusing those countries of interference in the controversial elections in which President Nicolás Maduro was re-elected.
The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry also ordered the aforementioned countries to withdraw their diplomatic personnel from Venezuela.
In a statement released by the Foreign Ministry, the government of Nicolás Maduro said that the measure was taken in rejection of the “interventionist actions and statements” of these seven countries regarding this Sunday’s presidential elections, which according to the National Electoral Council declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner.
“Venezuela expresses its strongest rejection of the interventionist actions and statements of a group of right-wing governments, subordinate to Washington and openly committed to the most sordid ideological postulates of international fascism, trying to re-enact the failed and defeated Lima Group, which seeks to ignore the electoral results of the Presidential Elections held this Sunday, July 28, 2024, which gave victory to the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,” the statement reads.
