Venezuelan Foreign Minister offers statements on peace dialogues in Colombia

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The Foreign Minister of Venezuela, Yvan Gil, offers conclusions regarding the conditions for consensus negotiations in relation to the peace talks process in Colombia. teleSUR

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00:00And the Sisterhood Nation of Colombia, they have made several important proposals delivered

00:23to President Nicolás Maduro within the framework of cooperation, solidarity, mutual support

00:33and respect of the sovereign elections of the people of Colombia and it's very important

00:40that we underscore that these recommendations have a deepening sense of respect for values

00:50and principles stipulated at the UN Charter, at the state sovereignty, at the self-determination

00:59of the peoples and everything that has to do with the sovereignty and the free self-determination

01:08of the peoples, as I have said, for not to see this as a process of intervention but

01:15a process of support, complementarity to the people and government of Colombia.

01:21And they were also participating in an important delegation of Colombians, men and women, that

01:29we received in our country through different associations of women and partners of Colombian

01:37associations in Venezuela that they did important breakthroughs, improvements and the first

01:45forum, it is proposed the first dialogue with the participation of Venezuela, CELAC and

01:58the ALBA-TCP.

02:03After making the forum, seeing the escalation of the crisis in this country as well as the

02:14execution of the coup d'état denounced by President Gustavo Petro, it is proposed the

02:20making of a broadening discussion, dialogue with Colombian actors with participation of

02:30Venezuela as a mediator, as a continuation of the efforts by Venezuela in this peace

02:41dialogue with Colombia, that allowed to advance towards the stability of the Colombian nation.

02:48Likewise, it is expected to invite President Xiomara Castro as her role of President

02:57contemporary of the CELAC community as well as the countries of the ALBA-TCP.

03:05So, for them to support their good offices in this dialogue process and to help construct

03:20the stability of Colombia.

03:23In the headquarters of such process will be Caracas, the cradle of liberator Simon Bolivar,

03:34and so Venezuela is going to be a mediator with the participation of CELAC and ALBA-TCP.

03:43The discussions at this forum have reached the consensus of the diplomatic relations

03:50between Colombia and Venezuela, which have been very positive since its beginning two

03:59years ago with the arrival of President Petro.

04:01Finally, we have accepted the proposal of Venezuelans constituted by millions of

04:12migrants of joining the initiatives proposed by this forum, which have carried out invoking

04:21the most kind principles of solidarity between the people of Caracas on October 11, 2024.

04:30With this statement of the forum and this proposal that has been raised to President

04:38Nicolás Maduro Moro to facilitate dialogue in Colombia, we end this statement.

04:54We were listening to Foreign Minister Iván Gil from Venezuela giving the final conclusions

05:03from the ALBA-TCP political committee also on the Colombian dialogue process.

05:10He was offering also the conclusions on the dialogue regarding the process and also different

05:17proposals, also inviting Xiomara Castro, President of the CELAC and President of Honduras to

05:23continue following this process.

05:26Let's recall that the process of dialogue in Colombia is one of the key processes regarding

05:32political activities and also the situation in the country that the ALBA-TCP and ALBA

05:40governments have been closely following in an effort to bring peace to the country, in

05:46an effort to bring dialogue, bring dialogue between the parties.

05:52So those were the statements offered by Foreign Minister of Venezuela Iván Gil.

05:56We will continue with more updates in upcoming news brief.

05:59Stay tuned with TELUS for English.

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