Venezuela’s foreign Minister, Jorge Arreaza, has proposed a summit meeting with US President Donald Trump in Switzerland. Head of government of Nicolás Maduro and Trump could discuss their differences directly.

“We are open for a dialogue with the United States,” said Arreaza on Wednesday before the UN human rights Council in Geneva. “Why not between President Maduro and Trump? Why you shouldn’t meet to find a common ground and discuss their differences?”

The summit could take place “in a neutral state like Switzerland,” said Arreaza later to the news Agency Keystone-SDA. Maduro had already proposed in the autumn of 2018 on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York as a Meeting. Trump had refused the claims to.

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Maduro was also to dialogue with the Opposition is ready, said Arreaza, “but they have been instructed not to respond.” Venezuela is considered to be the self-appointed transitional President Juan Guaidó as a puppet of Washington. Arreaza reiterated its condemnation of the international Blockade against his country. Several billion dollars would have been blocked in the United States, the United Kingdom and in Belgium.

Many countries make the Maduro government for the economic decline and the supply bottlenecks in the once-rich country with the largest known oil reserves in the world. Million people have fled abroad.

On the weekend prevented the security forces on the borders with Colombia and Brazil, the Guaidó supported import of relief goods. In the clashes at least four people were killed and around 350 injured. (Dec/sda)

Created: 27.02.2019, 13:53 PM