“We are ready to advance a new, intense work agenda for the wellbeing of…all the people of Europe and of Venezuela,” Venezuela’s foreign minister Yvan Gil said in a broadcast from the Miraflores presidential palace.
Caracas: Venezuela’s interim government said Monday it was ready to pursue a “new agenda” with the European Union and Britain following talks with their envoys after Nicolas Maduro was ousted as president.
Venezuela’s foreign minister Yvan Gil called for “opening channels of dialogue” with the EU, which did not recognize Maduro as the country’s legitimate leader.
The EU imposed sanctions on Maduro’s inner circle, openly backed the opposition and urged the inclusion of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado in Venezuela’s transition.
“We are ready to advance a new, intense work agenda for the wellbeing of…all the people of Europe and of Venezuela,” Gil said in a broadcast from the Miraflores presidential palace.
The talks between the European envoys and interim president Delcy Rodriguez alongside her top ministers covered energy, education, science, technology and pharmaceuticals.
Gil described the meeting as “frank, cordial, pleasant.”
The meeting came three days after Caracas and Washington said they had taken steps towards restoring their diplomatic ties, severed in 2019.
In 2025, Maduro had ordered France, the Netherlands and Italy each to cut their diplomatic staff in Venezuela to just three people.
Formerly Maduro’s vice president, Rodriguez took over after a US bombing raid on Caracas on January 3 ended with his capture and transfer to New York to face drug-trafficking charges.
