Colombian Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva cleared up the confusion about President Nicolás Maduro and the April 25 conference by saying that the Venezuelan head of state would not be present
The Colombian Foreign Minister, Álvaro Leyva, confirmed on Friday, April 14, that the visit of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to Bogotá, within the framework of the international conference on Venezuela on April 25, is ruled out.
This was stated by Foreign Minister Leyva to the magazine Weekdetailing that he never said that Maduro would be present at the meeting that seeks to reactivate the dialogues in Mexico between his administration and the opposition.
“It’s an invention. President Maduro is not coming. I have never said that he is coming. The Palacio de Nariño has never said it, ”said Leyva.
The “confusion” arose April 13th when the Colombian foreign minister was present at the UN Security Council to report on the peace agreements. There he said that the plan of the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has gone “beyond the borders by resuming relations with Venezuela.
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“We returned to have diplomatic relations with Venezuela. On the 25th of this month, it will take place in the capital of the republic, Bogotá (…) to see how it can lead to the resumption of the political dialogues that had been taking place in Mexico, naturally with the opposition parties and President Maduro. », he highlighted.
This statement was taken by various means to indicate that Maduro would be present at the meeting.
He detailed, later in a small press conference, that the United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, will not be present at the meeting.
The Venezuelan parties will not participate in the conference itself, Leyva explained, but it is expected that they will follow it very closely and that there may be an invitation for them to follow; emphasizing that President Petro would summon the opponents to meet with him in Bogotá.
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, announced the Tuesday March 28 a call in his country for “an international conference with the objective of building the road map that allows effective political dialogue between society and the Venezuelan government”; A proposal that Leyva later clarified was not seeking to replace the Mexican mechanism but to reactivate it.
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