Petro insisted on the proposal to give “maximum guarantees” to the opposition on June 28

||EFE Agency

***This is part of the “national agreement” that the president of Colombia is promoting for Venezuela****

Colombian President Gustavo Petro yesterday insisted on his proposal to reach a “national agreement” in Venezuela that would provide “maximum guarantees” for the opposition to participate in the July 28 elections and for the result to be respected.

“In my opinion, what I propose for Colombia is valid for Venezuela. A national agreement that, in the Venezuelan case, seeks the maximum guarantees for the opposition while respecting the upcoming election results,” Petro said in a message on his X account.

This agreement, which he proposed during his last visit to Venezuela following meeting with President Nicolás Maduro and also with representatives of the opposition, must “be raised as a unilateral declaration of State before the security commission for greater guarantee of all parties.”

According to Petro, who has been acting as mediator in the Venezuelan crisis since he became president, following this agreement, “all economic blockades once morest the Venezuelan people should be lifted.”

Venezuela resumed talks with the United States last week following several months of back-and-forth and with the imminent presidential elections on July 28 in the Caribbean nation as a backdrop.

During a virtual meeting, both parties agreed to “work together to gain trust and improve relations” and to “maintain communication in a respectful and constructive manner,” according to the chief negotiator for Chavismo, Jorge Rodríguez.