This Wednesday, President Nicolás Maduro held a meeting with Ernesto Samper Pizano, former president of Colombia.
The meeting, held at the Miraflores Palace, Caracas, aims to join efforts for the relaunch of regional integration.
The meeting of political leaders falls within the context of the joint petition that former presidents, former ministers, parliamentarians and intellectuals will raise to strengthen multilateral instances in favor of peace, reports a note from Presidential Press.
Through a addressed letter to President Nicolás Maduro on November 14, they advocated “the reconstruction of an effective space for South American consultation” in the spirit of a renewed Union of South American Nations (Unasur) that “must self-critically take charge of the deficiencies of the previous process.”
Similarly, in the letter they proposed the incorporation of new actors that allow accelerating the common effort of nations, both at the governmental level and in universities, institutes, cultural centers, unions, and other sectors of society.
At this Wednesday’s meeting, Nicolás Maduro and Ernesto Samper also addressed the progress of the dialogue between the National Government delegation and the oppositions gathered in the Unitary Platform, which on Saturday, November 26. These negotiations led to the signing of the Second Partial Agreement that aims at the creation of a practical mechanism to meet vital social needs, based on the recovery of resources from the Venezuelan State blocked in the international financial system.
Earlier, the former Colombian president participated in the Forum “Regional integration, perspectives and experiences of Latin America and the Caribbean”, organized in the context of the XLVIII Ordinary Meeting of the Latin American Council of the Permanent Secretariat of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA). ).
