Colombian Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo responded to Diosdado Cabello’s accusations, saying that “foolish words turn a deaf ear.” The Chavista leader accused him of “working” for the United States government.
«That makes no sense, to foolish words, deaf ears“the foreign minister told reporters in Suriname, where he participated in a Ministerial Meeting of the Association of Caribbean States.
Murillo added that he met with his Venezuelan counterpart, Yván Gil, in Suriname, to whom he expressed his “concerns.”
«We have always maintained a very fluid diplomatic dialogue, and that is the official voice of the Government of Venezuela, that is why we do not want to respond or give in to any provocation from other actors on either side who sometimes only want to generate conflict.“, he said.
Cabello accused Murillo of working for the United States following the foreign minister said that his country is seeking a “smooth transition” in Venezuela following the presidential elections on July 28.
«¿Who sent you to declare that? Your Colombian president or your US president? Who do you work for? Who gives you the right to talk regarding transition in Venezuela? (…) Here the only transition that is coming is the transition to socialism, there is no other.“he said on his weekly television programme ‘Con el mazo dando’, broadcast on state channel VTV.
Cabello, first vice president of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), said that Murillo “works for the United States Government“and that this recent statement is “very rude” and “unfriendly.”
At the 54th Annual Washington Conference on the Americas, Murillo said that Colombia hopes that the upcoming Venezuelan elections “be fair, obviously, competitive… free«, and let it be, «at least an acceptable process«.
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2024-07-08 20:12:19
