Twenty-two countries and EU call for impartial verification of Venezuelan election results

Santo Domingo, Aug 16 (EFE).- Twenty-two countries and the European Union requested this Friday the «immediate publication of all original minutes» of the elections of July 28 in Venezuela and the “impartial” and “independent” verification of the results of those elections in which the National Electoral Council declared Nicolás Maduro the winner, according to a statement signed in Santo Domingo.

“Any delay” in this verification, “preferably by an international entity to guarantee respect for the will of the Venezuelan people as expressed at the polls,” calls into question the officially published results, says the text, read by the Dominican Minister of Foreign Affairs, Roberto Álvarez, at the Presidential Palace in Santo Domingo together with the signatories of the declaration.

The declaration was signed by Argentina, Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Spain, the United States, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Italy, Morocco, the Netherlands, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the United Kingdom, Suriname, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay and the European Union.

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