The executive vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, expressed this Friday her country’s willingness to establish an “energy dialogue” with the US and world production companies, which have been affected by “an anachronistic and inefficient policy.” , alluding to Washington’s unilateral sanctions.
“Venezuela is ready for an energy dialogue with US and world producing companies,” Rodríguez said during his speech at the opening of the Second Diplomacy Forum held in Antalya, Turkey, where he reiterated Caracas’s proposal to establish a ” financial dialogue” with the holders of Venezuelan debt bonds.
In this context, Rodríguez recalled that less than a week ago, a delegation sent by Joe Biden traveled to Caracas to hold a meeting with the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, and part of his cabinet.
Regarding that meeting, he stressed that in addition to addressing “bilateral issues”, one of the topics was “the energy agenda” in the face of the “explosive market resulting from the conflict between the West and Russia.”
“Venezuela’s doors are open to any country,” stressed the vice president, who blamed the US for having forced the rupture of “historic relations” with Caracas and interrupting the energy agenda, by imposing an “illegal blockade” against his country, which acted especially against the oil industry.
Along these lines, Rodríguez considered that in the midst of the current situation, higher levels of diplomacy and understanding are required, for which he ratified the willingness of the Maduro administration to “maintain relations of respect and dialogue with the US government, without conditions, without restrictions, within the framework of the Charter of the United Nations, which upholds, among other principles, the sovereign equality of States”.
