Venezuela’s president said “things are going well” with the European Union
Her government Venezuela is “absolutely ready” to normalize her relations with USAwhich were discontinued in 2019, the president said yesterday, Sunday Nicolas Maduro.
“Venezuela is ready, absolutely ready, to go towards a process of normalization of relations, diplomatic, consular, political, with the US government and any others that may follow,” Mr. Maduro said during an interview with the French journalist Ignacio Ramone and on the TeleSUR television network.
The government of socialist President Maduro broke off relations of with the USA in 2019, the year Donald Trump’s administration recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s interim president. In its bid to oust Mr. Maduro from power, Washington has unleashed a barrage of sanctions on Caracas, including an embargo on Venezuelan oil.
Although current US President Joe Biden continues to officially not recognize Mr Maduro as Venezuela’s president, saying he was elected by “fraud” in the 2018 election from which the opposition abstained, the oil crisis sparked by the war in Ukraine has brought efforts to rewarm relations.
The White House sent 2022 envoys to Caracas for negotiations, while easing sanctions on Venezuela after some progress in government talks with the opposition, notably allowing US oil giant Chevron to operate in the Latin American state in principle over the next six months.
“We are ready for dialogue at the highest level, for respectful relations, and I hope that a ray of light will lead the United States of North America to turn the page, put aside extremist politics and adopt more pragmatic policies towards Venezuela,” said Mr. Maduro.
The president of Venezuela also stated that “things are progressing well” with the European Union and that there is a “permanent dialogue” with the head of diplomacy of the 27, Giuseppe Borrell.
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