Venezuelan foreign minister denies post-election meeting with Mexico, Colombia and Brazil
AFP and Europa Press
The newspaper La Jornada
Friday, September 6, 2024, p. 28
Caracas. Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello denied that President Nicolás Maduro has a meeting on his agenda with his counterparts from Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador; Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; and Colombia, Gustavo Petro, to discuss the post-electoral crisis that the Bolivarian Republic is going through, as the Colombian government has claimed.
The topic of Venezuela is discussed by VenezuelansCabello said, words with which he contradicted the Colombian Foreign Minister, Luis Gilberto Murillo, who declared on Tuesday about a possible virtual meeting.
The head of Colombian diplomacy stated that Probably tomorrow (Wednesday of this week) a meeting of the three presidents with Maduro can be held to express their position and have a dialogue within diplomatic confidentiality to find solutions and there take fundamental positions. Always guaranteeing sovereignty and autonomy.reported the Colombian magazine Week, which collected the diplomat’s statement.
“He (Murillo) believes that he can say ‘we are coordinating a meeting between Colombia, Brazil and Mexico to discuss the issue of Venezuela,'” Cabello accused, while assuring that the Colombian foreign minister (starts) to tell lies and arrange a meetingand stressed that the Mexican president himself “came out saying ‘we don’t have any meetings.’”
In the context of the event of the second Binational Tourist Exchange between Colombia and Venezuela, held yesterday in Caracas, Nicolás Maduro supported his Colombian counterpart, who on Sunday denounced the existence of maneuvers to remove him from power, and asserted that, against this strategy, the citizen position will be fundamental, reported the Colombian magazine on its website. Week.
“I know that President Petro is an honest man. He has denounced that plans against him have been discovered, and we have directly expressed our solidarity.
He has accused that a coup d’état is underway against him, and I know that the Colombian people will know how to impose their force of peace and their force of democracy.said the Chavista ruler.
In addition, he ratified his support for the negotiation processes to achieve peace in the nation governed by Gustavo Petro, while showing his respect on the subject. Because you will never see me testifying, nor will you see my foreign minister testifying about the internal affairs of Colombia.reported the Venezuelan media Latest News on their website.
Meanwhile, opposition leader María Corina Machado said that former presidential candidate Edmundo González must be recognized as president-elect in the world and called on the United States do more in the electoral dispute.