Nicolás Maduro hopes to reach “new agreements” with the United States after the meeting with Donald Trump’s special envoy.
Maduro says he reached “first agreements” with the USA in meeting with Trump’s envoy
AFP
Nicolás Madurowho swore as president of Venezuela on January 10 after his questioned re -election last July, said Friday that reached some “first agreements” with the United States at the meeting with the special envoy of President Donald Trump, Richard Grenellheld today in Caracas.
“We were talking, defending and exposing, (…) I think it was positive (the meeting), there are issues where we have reached first agreements And, as are met, new issues will open, hopefully for new agreementsfor the good of the two countries and our entire region, “Maduro said in an act on the occasion of the beginning of judicial year 2025, transmitted by the state channel VTV.
While he did not offer any detail about these agreements, he said that on Saturday his boss negotiating, The president of Parliament, Jorge Rodríguez“will make an appearance to explain the steps” given by both delegations, in “a climate of respect and height.”
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Six American citizens arrested in Venezuela were released
Shortly before these statements, Grenelll, after his departure from the Caribbean country, shared a photograph on the social network X With six American citizens who were detained in Venezuela And they were released, one of the two objectives of their “very specific” mission, as Washington previously clarified, in addition to getting Caracas to accept deportation flights of undocumented migrants.
For his part, Maduro said he will be “very aware” that, after this “frank, direct, open” meeting with Grenelll, What is communicated is faithful to what was discussed in the presidential palace of Mirafloresheadquarters of the Executive, where he said he proposed to build a “zero agenda” For a “new start of historical relations” Between both countries -without diplomatic ties since 2019 -, in which “what has to be rectified, rectifies.”
“From free, sovereign and Bolivarian Venezuela, We tell President Donald Trump (that) We have taken a first stepI hope it can be sustained, we want to sustain it, “said Maduro, who said he had no” pressures of any kind, national or international. “
After the president of the president with Grenelll, the Chavista administration explained in a statement that one of the “various issues of interest for both countries” addressed It was the situation of “American citizens in crimes in national territory”as well as migration and the “negative” impact of economic sanctions.
In that pronouncement, Caracas expressed his disposition to maintain “open diplomatic channels” with the USa country that Maduro “raised the construction” of a “zero agenda for a new beginning in bilateral relations”, broken since 2019.
In parallel, Trump, whose government reiterated this Friday that does not recognize Maduro as president, He assured that he will not allow the purchase of oil from Venezuela as his predecessor, Joe Bidenwho relieved the sanctions scheme with the issuance of licenses to foreign companies, including the American Chevron, to operate in the Caribbean country, which has the largest proven oil reserves.
