The High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security, Kaja Kallas, announced this Monday that she will propose that the EU lift the sanctions against the acting president Delcy Rodríguez, as Spain had proposed.
Kallas pointed out that the Venezuelan authorities “have taken concrete steps towards rapprochement with Europe” since “they have released, for example, the European prisoners who were in Venezuela,” and added that “in the future we will have to talk about how we address the situation in that country.”
«I am going to propose that we lift the sanctions against Delcy Rodríguez, current acting president. And in a second moment we would have to talk in a broad sense about our relationship and the approach towards the Venezuelan authorities,” said Kallas.
This Friday, February 20, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, José Manuel Albares, announced that his country will ask the European Union to withdraw the individual sanctions imposed on the president in charge of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez.
The initiative arises as a diplomatic response to the Amnesty Law approved this Thursday in an ordinary session of the Venezuelan National Assembly, an instrument that the head of Spanish diplomacy considers a decisive advance towards reconciliation and political dialogue in the South American nation.
According to the head of Spanish diplomacy, sanctions are tools to encourage dialogue and lose their purpose when concrete progress is recorded in the resolution of internal conflicts.
