To the meeting, which was private and parallel to the Summit of the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), attended by the presidents Gustavo Petro (Colombia), Albert Fernandez (Argentina), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil) and Emmanuel Macron (France), as well as the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy, Joseph Borrell.
The Venezuelan government was represented by Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, and the opposition of the head of the Unitary Platform delegation, Gerard Blyde.
The purpose of this meeting was “to re-acclimate a process that allows reaching a democratic agreement through a dialogue between the different factions of Venezuelan society,” Petro explained to the press ahead of the meeting.
Petro, as he said before the meeting, again offered Colombia for a meeting – still undated – between the Venezuelan government and the opposition.
The president reiterated that Colombia “has always been ready, the Colombian territory is ready for dialogue. Venezuela is in fact the guarantor of the two peace processes that are taking place (in Colombia) and It has been a territorial space for dialogues, To that extent, we are prepared to make room for a democratic dialogue on Venezuela.”
Colombia already hosted the international conference on the political process in Venezuela, which took place in Bogotá on April 25, in which neither the Venezuelan government nor the opposition participated.
At that meeting, which brought together Latin American, North American and European delegates, as well as Borrell, the need to prepare an election schedule for “holding free elections, transparent and with full guarantees for all Venezuelan actors”.
Source: El heraldo
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