“Alex Saab, a full member of the Venezuelan dialogue delegation, and that his kidnapping and untimely transfer to the United States directly attacked the development of the dialogue in Mexico, which was already bearing important fruits for the Venezuelan population,” said the president of the Assembly. Nacional, Jorge Rodríguez upon leaving the meeting of the Commission for Dialogue and Peace.
In his opinion, the kidnapping of the Venezuelan diplomat represented “an affront to diplomatic work” and to the work carried out in the negotiation process that had been carried out in Mexico.
“There has been no type of change in that sense,” Rodríguez said, referring to the formatting of the national dialogue instructed by President Nicolás Maduro and the Executive’s demand for the immediate release of the Venezuelan diplomat.
“We will continue to insist that we are assisted by legal reason, International Law and human instances, for which Alex Saab is a full member of the dialogue delegation of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,” Rodríguez reiterated.
Rodríguez insisted that in this so-called “reformatting” stage of the dialogue, an intensive round of consultations and meetings will be held with all the factors of the Venezuelan opposition.
“We went on an offensive of work, of important meetings with all sectors, our approach is that we are all in the process of dialogue to know the perspectives of Venezuela, from all sectors”
The dialogue must be more inclusive. And after the photography after the elections we must incorporate all sectors. And the third element is that it is a dialogue in peace, he insisted after recalling the context of prevailing political conflict in the country during the development of the negotiations held in the Dominican Republic (2017) and in Norway (2019). The conflict was defeated. “This conflict translated into terrorism, attacks, coups. That whole heinous racket was defeated.”
