Jorge Rodriguez, President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, repudiates any interference in the internal affairs of the nation, calls for respect for sovereignty and the defense of an agreement during the course of the dialogues held with the united platform of the opposition. teleSUR
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00:00 We go live now to Venezuela to listen to the statements of the president of the Venezuelan
00:07 National Assembly.
00:08 Let's listen.
00:09 It is quite timely that we are here in the House of Laws of the Bolivarian Republic of
00:17 Venezuela in the House that laws are made in the development of political ideas and
00:34 social ideas, the big social agreement of Venezuela, which is the constitution, and
00:48 is developed through this house, which is built and approved according to the law.
01:01 We think I am honored to be along with the government of Venezuela and sister and another
01:24 member of this delegation, as well as I am accompanied by the directive board to reject
01:42 that category because of its lies, because of interfering, the Secretary of State, Antony
02:06 Blinken and Mr. Guaido, what they pointed out is clearly they are ignoring the constitution
02:24 and laws of Venezuela.
02:27 At this point, they must know that the government of Venezuela doesn't accept the pressures
02:41 of any country or any organization whatsoever.
02:49 We don't accept, we will never accept any kind of interference in our own businesses.
03:04 So Venezuelans are the ones who made their own choices.
03:14 So ask Guaido how was it when he tried to do so, when he tried to change the constitutional
03:35 order that profits.
03:44 He is the only case in the US, he is the only case that is a professor at the university
03:59 in the United States.
04:02 And the real truth is that Venezuela is not going to accept any interference.
04:16 We are very respectful and we are going to comply with the agreement to everything that
04:31 we wrote there on the agreement.
04:35 We respected it and we sustained it.
04:42 So we urge for the opposition to defend that agreement in the same way.
04:55 So now we are going to reveal, to unfold, we are not going to unfold any private conversation
05:06 until unless we are forced to.
05:15 We will talk, we will reveal the conversations, the dialogue, if the opposition continues
05:30 to bend the truth and to discredit the government.
05:42 So we understand even a day early before the agreement was signed, the Washington Post
05:54 said there were leaks on the matrix.
06:11 We hope that with these statements we gave the issue was closed, but it seems like it
06:27 didn't happen like that.
06:29 So with all the power the US and the opposition have, you have to understand that we want
06:45 to be bribed and we won't accept any interference.
06:54 Mind your own businesses.
06:56 Worried, be concerned over complying with the partial agreement.
07:04 We are engaged, we are committed to comply with it.
07:14 I reaffirmed that if we are forced to, we will reveal the real truth.
07:25 The updating of all presidential candidates and political candidates are going to be accepted
07:38 with all presidential requirements by the constitution.
07:56 So we all have rights, so Venezuela has political, social, economic rights, and everyone has
08:11 rights.
08:12 And it is like that, for instance, all Venezuelans can be shrinks if they study that career.
08:39 Or if surgeons, the same way, they can be surgeons if they studied medicine.
08:52 So a killer cannot be a presidential candidate.
09:01 And any individual, any citizen who has committed a crime cannot be a candidate.
09:16 That's the case of Machado, who was prosecuted because of crime.
09:26 So as long as the citizen complies with the law, that person can be a candidate.
09:40 So Venezuelans need to respect the requirements by the constitution.
09:48 So whoever can be a presidential candidate, as long as the person complies with the requirements
10:01 established by the law, by the constitutional law, each letter of the partial agreement
10:15 are going to be duly studied, observed.
10:22 We accept the participation of observers, of international observers.
10:37 We are proud of president of Venezuela's elections.
10:52 We weren't the ones who violated the constitution.
10:57 We weren't the ones who requested sanctions for Venezuela.
11:06 But what is legal is that Venezuela didn't have to go through any coercive sanctions.
11:27 And so we are looking for the lifting of all those sanctions because the entire world celebrates
11:42 the step taken yesterday because Venezuela was expected and expects to be one of the
12:06 main providers of energy in the world because we aim at exporting oil for Europe, Asia,
12:19 and other continents.
12:24 We aim to help to gain balance in the energy nationwide.
12:35 Chavez recalled one Venezuelan poet that said...
12:55 And we were listening to the statements of the president of the Venezuelan National Assembly,
12:59 Jorge Rodriguez.
13:00 He stated that...
13:07 Venezuela is proud of the electoral system and how it works, and it also respects and
13:11 upholds what is written and that they hope that this document upholds it as well.
13:16 The United States must understand that Venezuela will not be blood-mailed nor will it allow
13:20 anyone to interfere in the country and must commit to what has been agreed.
13:26 He also stated that Venezuela will keep being an oil provider to the world.
13:30 More breaking news coming up.
13:32 Stay tuned.