The Vatican and the UN will coordinate a group of friendly countries that could be present at the negotiating table in Mexico

Gerardo Blyde Pérez, Photo: PEDRO PARDO / AFP

The head of the Unified Platform delegation in Mexico, Gerardo Blyde, announced this Thursday that the Vatican and the United Nations Organization will coordinate the group of friendly countries that might be present for the negotiation process with the government of Nicolás Maduro.

In a interview with Analitica.com, the politician explained that although the dialogue has not been resumed in the opposition, work is being done to install the group, which must be balanced. The idea of ​​this plan is that friendly countries act as guarantors of the process.

«We have had installation problems because we have more demand than quotas. That has impressed me (…) The idea is that there be 10 countries and that it be coordinated by the Vatican and the UN. We are working on that and I think that when it is reinstalled we will have solved it, “Blyde detailed.

“We have many countries that want to join the group of friends and it is very uncomfortable to tell a country that it cannot enter, because that cannot be a polyhedron there either,” he added.

Regarding the dialogue in Mexico that remained unfinished because the ruling party suspended negotiations following the extradition to the United States of Colombian businessman Alex Saab, the opponent said that the performance “was not good.”

In 2021 only two agreements not installed in Mexico

He said that both parties only reached two agreements that might not be installed. The first has to do with the Essequibo and the second with a social assistance table.

“One of the first things is going to have to be appointing the members of the social care desk and for them to start working quickly because the needs continue to grow,” he said.

Blyde reiterated the need for the talks to be resumed, as he asserted that the negotiations might bring peace and this prosperity to the country.

“So many millions who have had to migrate and might return, because that prosperity begins to truly flourish with solid foundations and not in bubbles as we are currently seeing,” he said.

The negotiating table in Mexico was established between the government and the opposition in August 2021 and was suspended in October following the extradition to the US of Colombian businessman Alex Saab, alleged figurehead of Nicolás Maduro.

More recently, Juan Guaidó, recognized as interim president of Venezuela by almost 60 countries and leader of the Unitarian Platform, insisted to return “as soon as possible” to the negotiating table in Mexico. He said that the progressive lifting of the sanctions that weigh on Venezuela depends on his progress.

However, at the beginning of the year, Jorge Rodríguez, president of the Parliament elected in 2020 and who leads the official delegation in the negotiations in Mexico, conditioned the return of Chavismo to the dialogue table with the opposition to the release of Saab, accused in the US of money laundering.

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