The European Union and Uruguay want to open a chain …

After the European Parliament recognized Juan Guaidó, its self-proclaimed interim president, the European Union announced today that it would co-organize with Uruguay the international meeting on Venezuela which will be held in Montevideo on February 7 in order to open a channel of dialogue between the parties. The group "wants to help create the conditions necessary for the emergence of a political and peaceful process enabling Venezuelans to determine their own future by organizing free, transparent and credible elections", says the joint declaration of the EU and Uruguay.

In the text, the head of European diplomacy, the Italian Federica Mogherini, and the president of Uruguay, Tabaré Vázquez, badured that they would co-host the inaugural meeting of the "Contact Group" International Conference on Venezuela ". The meeting, which will be attended by the Ministers of Foreign Relations, was convened by the East European countries and Mexico, which gave up at the last moment to participate. "First of all, the parties have to start talking," said Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador recently.

On January 31, Mogherini announced that EU members and some Latin American countries had decided to create this group, the aim of which would be to create the conditions for new elections. and in search of a "peaceful and democratic solution" to the crisis. At the meeting next Thursday, the EU will be represented by eight of its 28 members (France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom), as well as by Bolivia, the Costa Rica, Ecuador and Uruguay, in return. Hispanic

On January 26, the EU issued an ultimatum to the Venezuelan government for it to call elections, which was repudiated and ignored by Maduro because it goes against the sovereignty of Venezuela . Some time later, he agreed to negotiate the call for legislative and non-presidential elections. It was then that the bloc, which does not recognize Mr. Guaidó as president, launched a dialogue initiative. "I want to clarify that the goal is not to open a mediation process or a formal dialogue" but "to accompany," said Mogherini. The group will help create the confidence and the conditions necessary to establish a credible process for Venezuelans to determine their own future by holding new elections with all the guarantees, "he added.