“If the United States government is willing to respect the sovereignty and stop threatening Venezuela“We can resume dialogue,” said the Venezuelan president on his X account (formerly Twitter).
In this regard, in order to carry out diplomatic negotiations, Maduro made the “compliance” of a signed memorandum of understanding a condition Last September between United States and Venezuela in Qatar.
In the same post, he shared a copy of the memo detailing: “Following the holding of presidential elections and the inauguration of the duly elected president, The United States unblocks Venezuelan government assets currently frozen“and “lifts all sanctions,” the document states.
The White House had declared its willingness to review its sanctions against Venezuela, which include a embargo on oil, gas and gold in this Caribbean country, if there were “free elections.”
The United States recognized González Urrutia as the elected president of Venezuela
Anyway, The United States did not recognize Maduro’s electoral victoryfollowing allegations of fraud by the opposition, which led to mass protests that have already left a balance of at least 11 dead, According to human rights organizations, there were 1,200 arrests and dozens of injuries.
The head of American diplomacy, Antony Blinkensaid in a statement on Thursday that There is “overwhelming evidence” of the victory of opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutiawho ran for office for the political disqualification of the former deputy Maria Corina Machado.
The National Electoral Council (CNE) proclaimed Maduro re-elected president for a third six-year term just after midnight on Sunday, with 51% of the votes compared to 44% for his main rival.
The opposition claims that it has copies of more than 80% of the minutes and that González Urrutia obtained 67% of the votes.
Source: Ambito
