The interim president of Venezuela Juan Guaidó on Saturday thanked the United States, Canada and the European Union (EU) for their support of the negotiation process with the Nicolás Maduro regime that began on Friday in Mexico and that during this day passed with secrecy.
“We thank the US, Canada and the European Union for their support to the negotiation process that began yesterday to achieve a comprehensive agreement in Venezuela. We have all our disposition so that the process allows a solution to the crisis and the rescue of our democracy “Guaidó said in a message on Twitter.
USA, Canada and the EU they trusted this Saturday that the new dialogue between the regime and the Venezuelan opposition will produce “lasting agreements”, and they recalled that they are willing to review their sanctions against Venezuela if there are “significant advances” in the negotiations.
In a joint statement, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken; the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell; and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, Marc Garneau; they welcomed the negotiations.
“We urge all parties to engage (in dialogue) in good faith to reach lasting agreements that lead to a comprehensive solution to the Venezuelan crisis,” the three diplomats indicated.
They trusted that the process allows “to restore the democratic institutions of the country.” and ensure that “all Venezuelans can express themselves politically through free and fair elections” at the “local, parliamentary and presidential” level.
What’s more, they reiterated their “willingness to review” their respective “sanctions policies” against Venezuela. “If the regime (of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro) makes significant progress in the announced talks.”
Borrell, Blinken and Garneau had already announced, in another joint statement last June, that possibility of initiating a lifting of sanctions on Caracas in the event of “significant progress in a global negotiation” that would repair “the country’s institutions” and allow free elections.
For his part, the dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, celebrated this Saturday as an achievement the beginning of negotiations with the opposition, led by Juan Guaidó, who proposed this new round of talks taking place in Mexico last May.
The tyrant described the beginning of the talks as a “monumental, extraordinary event for the peace of the country.”
(With information from EFE)
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