The president of the National Assembly (AN), Jorge Rodríguez, reported on Tuesday that he is in talks with the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, to reestablish relations between the two parliaments.
“We are in conversation with the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro. We are working to restore relations between both parliaments and friendship with the brother people,” Rodríguez said during the extraordinary session held this Tuesday for the Presentation of the Management and Completion Report of the First Period of Sessions corresponding to 2022.
The president of the National Assembly(AN), Jorge Rodríguez, announced that they will request an investigation into the conditions left by the right-wing Venezuelan embassy in Colombia.
From the AN hemicycle, he described as a “true crime” what happened at the Venezuelan embassy in Colombia. In relation to this, Jorge Rodríguez also included the deterioration of the Venezuelan consulate in Bogotá, Colombia.
“Notice as well the expression of human decomposition of these people who made Colombia their beachhead for death, murder, violence, for aggression, the visual expression is the state as they left the residence and the embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela«, expressed the President of the AN.
Jorge Rodríguez denounced that the Venezuelan embassy in Colombia was “kidnapped and raided.”
In addition, he reiterated the call for the return of the Venezuelan plane hijacked in Argentina. «We will stay on the street saying that plane on the street must be returned. Return the hijacked plane, return the plane and our kidnapped brothers,” added Jorge Rodríguez.
They plan to legislate in Cúcuta and San Cristóbal
The president of the parliament, Jorge Rodríguez, assured that he communicated with the senators of the Colombian Congress Roy Barreras and Gloria Flórez.
“We agree to advance on some elements that are in the strategy defined by the heads of state of Colombia and Venezuela, President Gustavo Petro and President Nicolás Maduro, in the sense of reestablishing diplomatic relations, commercial relations and mainly friendly relations between peoples,” Rodríguez said.
Likewise, he explained that the responsibility of the National Assembly will be based on the agreements with the Presidency and the Foreign Ministry. “We have decided to work in coordination with the Foreign Ministry of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Colombia, in order to incorporate our schedule into the work plan that is already being discussed between both countries.”
He urged parliamentarians to remain vigilant about the calls for extraordinary sessions or meetings of special commissions in the coming days, given that the plan for parliamentary rapprochement includes calling the foreign policy commissions of both countries to the boards of directors and special commissions of parliamentarians from the border areas that we share with Colombia to hold meetings on both sides of the border line.
He explained that they are coordinating a link between the two parliaments and pointed out that deputy Julio Chávez, as president of the Venezuela-Colombia friendship group, should join such meetings that will surely favor happiness, prosperity and peace for the peoples.
Meanwhile, the opposition deputy who chairs the Foreign Policy Commission, Timoteo Zambrano, explained that they already contemplate that the first binational meeting of parliamentarians on the border could take place one day in the Colombian city of Cúcuta, capital of the department of Norte de Santander , and another day in the city of San Cristóbal, capital of the state of Táchira.
In addition, it proposes to provide a boost to dialogue from five or six border axes.
