The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, received this Tuesday, together with the First Combatant, Cilia Flores, at the Miraflores Palace, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Álvaro Leyva.
The president held a meeting with the Colombian foreign minister to advance a cooperation agenda for the benefit of both nations.
Leyva arrived in Venezuela on Tuesday to fulfill a work agenda in the country and was received at the Simón Bolívar International Airport by his Venezuelan counterpart, the People’s Power Minister for Foreign Relations, Carlos Faría.
It should be noted that Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva Durán’s visit coincides with a meeting in Caracas between the Colombian Peace Commissioner and the guerrilla National Liberation Army (ELN), in which they signed a statement, mediated by Venezuela as guarantor of the dialogue for peace.
“The Bolivarian Government of Venezuela aspires to consolidate this new effort between the parties, so that the people of Colombia overcome this long period of conflicts that would strengthen Latin America and the Caribbean as a zone of peace, making progress in the Bolivarian effort of union and prosperity for our peoples”, highlights a statement from the Foreign Ministry.
Minister Faría, through his Twitter account @Fariacrt, highlighted the welcome to Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva, “with whom we continue to work to advance the agenda designed by our presidents Nicolás Maduro and Gustavo Petro.”
Venezuela and Colombia reestablished diplomatic relations at the end of August; after both nations appointed ambassadors.
Economic relations were restored on September 26, when the border between the two countries was reopened.
