- Carlos Cuerpo, Minister of Economy, Trade and Enterprise of the European country, said that for now there are no changes in trade relations with Venezuela. Main photo: EFE
The Spanish Minister of Economy, Trade and Enterprise, Carlos Cuerpo, assured that the Spanish government protects the interests of its companies abroad and sent a message of reassurance regarding the situation in Venezuela because there has been “no change.”
We have to operate in a diplomatic, geopolitical environment, and there has been no change, no concrete measures, and therefore we must send an additional message of calm,” he said on Thursday, September 12, after the president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, called for breaking relations with Spain.
The body insisted that Spain will try to maintain trade and investment relations with Venezuela to protect the interests of Spanish companies in that and other countries.
This reaction came after the Spanish Congress, at the proposal of the conservative PP party and with the vote against the Socialists, urged the Spanish government to recognise the Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, who is in Spain and has requested asylum, as the winner of the last elections.
AN requested the breaking of diplomatic relations with Spain
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The National Assembly (AN), with a pro-government majority, is preparing a resolution that it hopes to approve later to urge the government of Nicolás Maduro to break “all diplomatic, consular, economic and commercial relations” with Spain.
During the session on Wednesday, September 11, the president of the AN, Jorge Rodríguez, asked the Foreign Policy Commission an immediate meeting to draft a resolution that the plenary “approves peremptorily.”
“Let all representatives of the Spanish government delegation and all consulates and consuls leave here and we will bring our own people from there, let them stay with their murderers, their coup plotters, their fascists, their violent people,” he said.
Jorge Rodríguez also requested that the resolution establish that “all commercial activities of Spanish companies be immediately ceased,” in response to what he considered to be “the most brutal attack” by Spain against Venezuela “since the times” in which the country fought for independence.
“People who do not even choose their president commit the barbarity of thinking that they can appoint the president of Venezuela (…) They should be ashamed that, in the 21st century, a person by blood rights is the one who appoints the president of the government in Spain,” said the head of the AN.
He also requested that flights to and from Venezuela with Spain be stopped.
With information from EFE.
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2024-09-12 17:57:20
How is Spain ensuring the protection of its companies in Venezuela during diplomatic tensions?
Spain Assures Protection of Interests in Venezuela Despite Diplomatic Tensions
The Spanish Minister of Economy, Trade and Enterprise, Carlos Cuerpo, has sent a message of reassurance to Spanish companies operating in Venezuela, stating that there will be no changes in trade relations with the South American nation. This comes amidst diplomatic tensions between Spain and Venezuela, following a call by the Venezuelan National Assembly to break diplomatic relations with Spain.
According to Cuerpo, the Spanish government will continue to protect the interests of Spanish companies abroad, particularly in Venezuela. “We have to operate in a diplomatic, geopolitical environment, and there has been no change, no concrete measures, and therefore we must send an additional message of calm,” he said on Thursday, September 12. [[3]]
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