The bilateral meeting between the President Ivan Duque and Joe Biden It takes place a few days after a secret meeting between high-ranking officials of the White House and the government of Nicolás Madurowithout the leader of the opposition Juan Guaido was aware of her, a leader that the United States recognizes as the legitimate president of Venezuela.
This secret meeting has generated criticism from US congressmen as well as from the president himself Ivan Dukeabout possible negotiations that took place amid oil supply shortages in United States, after the importation of Russian crude into that country was prohibited.
To this, officials of the White House ensured that the meeting between United States and Venezuela was planned months in advance, before the visit of the President Duque to Washington.
They also clarified that this approach was only to know the status of Americans detained in Venezuela and resume the conversations Maduro with the opposition in Mexico. And they ensured that “there is no negotiation between the United States and the Maduro government” as has been insinuated around the purchase of oil.
They also stated that the White House “is not going to ask permission from other countries” to reunite American families that have been divided by unjustified arrests, a matter of national security of the United States.
Radius Snail learned unofficial details of the president’s meeting Ivan Duke with his counterpart Joe Biden at the White House. At 1:25 in the afternoon, the Colombian president will arrive at the US presidential headquarters at the portico of the west roomwhere you will be escorted to the Roosevelt room. There he will sign the official guest book and take a photo with the president Joe Biden.
The meeting will formally begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Oval Room of the White House. But first the president will meet at 11:30 AM with the senator Bob Menendez, the president of Foreign Relations Committee, who presented before Congress a new legislative initiative that seeks to formally designate Colombia as an ally outside the NATO.
