The European Parliament surges ahead in the discussion of the handling of the situation in Venezuela. The deputies decided on Thursday in Brussels, with a large majority, the opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the rightful interim President of the South American country. At the same time they called on the governments of the EU member States to follow this decision.
As the reason for the clear positioning in the Declaration adopted by the recent Statements of the acting President, Nicolás Maduro, were called. This had been rejected by the EU-calling for a prompt and fair election of a new President in the country open to the public. Since the days of the struggle for power in Venezuela, mass protests accompanied. Guaidó campaigned recently to have the support of the army.
The British foreign Minister, Jeremy Hunt, urged on Thursday the use of targeted sanctions against individual members of Maduro’s government. The Hunt said in a BBC Interview ahead of an informal Meeting with EU counterparts in the Romanian capital, Bucharest.
sanctions against the country as a whole would not be considered, because the humanitarian situation was tense and the Situation should not be aggravated, said Hunt. “But targeted sanctions against the kleptocrats who have enriched themselves at the expense of the rest of the very poor population, this is something that could be effective, I think.”
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to exercise The British foreign Ministry said additionally, Venezuela’s self-proclaimed interim President, had asked in a telephone conversation with Hunt on Wednesday to pressure from Europe on the Maduro government. Guaidó call on the EU also, him collective as interim President of the country.
Whether the EU States can agree on in the meeting of foreign Ministers in Bucharest on a common line in the question of the recognition Guaidós, was until recently unclear. Several European countries such as Germany, France and Spain had put Maduro last weekend an Ultimatum. The threat was: Calling out Maduro up to this Sunday, no free and fair elections, they want to Guaidó, the self-declared interim head of state acknowledge, as a transitional President.
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the goal is actually to make this decision on behalf of the EU. Countries such as Greece refused but until the last to join them. That Europe recognises Parliament Guaidó, has mostly symbolic significance, because it has in foreign policy issues the EU is not a right of co-determination. (dpa)
