Until now, Argentina and Venezuela maintained diplomatic relations at the level of Charges d’Affaires, with Eduardo Porretti in Caracas and Stella Lugo in Buenos Aires.
The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, announced this Monday the 18th that his government has decided to restore full diplomatic relations with the regime of Nicolás Maduro, sending a new ambassador to Caracas.
“We think that the time has come to talk about Venezuela and as a first step, Argentina wants to recover its full diplomatic ties with Venezuela,” Fernández announced at a joint press conference with the president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, who is on an official visit. in Buenos Aires.
As has transpired in Argentine mediathe new Argentine ambassador to Venezuela will be the Kirchnerist deputy Óscar Laborde, who in 2020 held the presidency of Parlasur.
Until now, Argentina and Venezuela maintained diplomatic relations at the level of Charges d’Affaires, with Eduardo Porretti in Caracas and Stella Lugo in Buenos Aires.
From the Casa Rosada, Alberto Fernández called on Latin American countries to review their relations with Venezuela, after the majority recognized Juan Guaidó as interim president in 2019.
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“Venezuela has had a difficult time. The High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, took action on the matter, intervened, helped and worked with the Venezuelan government. Many of these problems have been dissipating over time,” said the Argentine president.
In addition, he said that based on the agreements reached with the Contact Group, progress has been made “in its electoral process and we believe that it is time to help Venezuela so that, in the dialogue, it fully recovers its normal functioning as a country and society. We are not going to achieve it if we leave it alone without ambassadors.”
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