The President of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez provided statements about the recent meeting held with USA representatives. teleSUR
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00:00:00 We go live to Venezuela, where the President of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez,
00:00:08 will offer statements.
00:00:12 The President of the Republic of Venezuela, we consider important to communicate with
00:00:19 the public media and communications, and also to the Venezuelan people and the international
00:00:28 community to do some statements.
00:00:33 As the popular quote says, "It is better not to lie, because if you lie, you need to
00:00:42 have a greater memory."
00:00:46 If you have a poor memory, we advise you not to lie, and also, the liar has short legs.
00:00:57 To this moment, the tenants' own words, because this is another important element that we
00:01:04 want to talk about, the dignity people and the governments' dignity has a word, and
00:01:17 its word has to be respected, and they have to fulfill with this word, because the only
00:01:25 thing that a woman or a man has is his own word, his own name, his own last name, his
00:01:33 own signature, and we're going to speak more about this.
00:01:40 We're filling with this word and the declaration of the Venezuelan government.
00:01:46 President Nicolás Maduro, we are setting, guarding all the elements of the meetings
00:01:56 that came through in the Doha capital, in the city of Milan, and the Republic of Italy,
00:02:09 and also in other meetings that were held in the capital of the United States.
00:02:17 What for?
00:02:18 To explore and attend a request in May that the United States government comply that was
00:02:35 directed to our friends, to the Qatar round, to request a bridge, a link that allowed us
00:02:43 to start conversations in energetical matters, in political businesses, in diplomatic businesses,
00:02:55 and immigration matters, too.
00:02:57 As we're standing, one and again, that President Nicolás Maduro has repeated, if you want
00:03:07 to play with our dignity and with our essence and with our attachment to the Constitution
00:03:15 and our independence, our sovereignty, we're speaking to everyone.
00:03:21 We're setting that Venezuela is not under any restrictions and is sovereign and independent,
00:03:32 because many years ago it was free from the chains of imperialism.
00:03:38 If we set these grounds, we're willing to speak with anyone, as President Maduro said.
00:03:45 If you want, I do want; if you don't want, I do not want.
00:03:52 In the instances of the United States government, we accepted travel to Doha city, and the first
00:04:00 meetings were held on 7th of May of 2023, with the assistance of Mr. Juan González,
00:04:11 Special Deputy of the Central Agency of the Security of the United States, and Mr. Brian
00:04:20 Nichols, Sub-Secretary for the West Hemisphere of the United States, and other representatives
00:04:29 of the State Department of the Central Agency of the United States, and from the Treasury
00:04:38 Department, also called CAFAP, to start the first meetings and to seek to generate bridges
00:04:51 to be able to hold the conversation.
00:04:55 And this happened, and from the first instance, from the first moment, the expression from
00:05:03 the delegation of the United States was that the intention was to seek the rise of the
00:05:12 course of measures against Venezuela.
00:05:16 What is our position from the first day?
00:05:20 That we are willing to talk with the structures that have been mentioned to you before, and
00:05:28 that sanctions never should be imposed because they were illegal, and because they were fighting
00:05:40 against international law.
00:05:44 They asked for meetings, and on the 3rd and 4th of June of 2023 in Milan, the 8th and
00:05:52 10th of 2023 in Doha, 3rd and 4th of August 2023 in Italy, and 27th and 28th of September
00:06:07 2023, and two last meetings held last week in the United States capital.
00:06:20 We had six safe video conferences with the delegation, and the case of the United States
00:06:28 delegation was increased with the time, with lawyers from the White House and representatives
00:06:36 that were added from the State Department from the United States, representatives from
00:06:44 other offices of the Biden administration, and the Venezuela case were the same four
00:06:55 of us always, Hector, Leonardo, Larry, and Margarita.
00:07:02 In the month of September, on September 28th of 2023, and that's why always it's better
00:07:24 to speak the truth, because always there is evidence that who is telling lies and not.
00:07:34 On September 2023, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the United States of America
00:07:44 signed two memorandums of understanding, one memorandum of understanding about the matter
00:07:54 of immigration, this one, and another one about the politics topics and diplomatic topics
00:08:07 and bilateral relationships.
00:08:12 And this is the first point, because the far right and extreme sectors of Venezuela are
00:08:21 pointing that the United States is not recognizing the President Maduro government, but they
00:08:30 signed the memorandum of understanding, the delegation of the United States and from the
00:08:42 Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela had intention to step forward to the normalization of the
00:08:53 bilateral diplomatic relationships.
00:09:00 And this one, this document that is in English, because all the documents were written and
00:09:08 signed in English and in Spanish, this thin line here, can you close up the camera, please?
00:09:22 You cannot see that, probably.
00:09:25 This very thin line that we have here, it is the sign of the sub-secretary, Nichols,
00:09:40 and that's mine, Jorge Rodriguez Gomez, signed.
00:09:46 So both of us signed an understanding memorandum between both countries on the 28th of September.
00:10:03 There is even photograph registration of this sign, signature, and I can show you that with
00:10:12 pleasure.
00:10:13 In Doha, Qatar, this, that is there, is a sub-secretary signing the understanding memorandum,
00:10:27 and this one is Jorge Rodriguez.
00:10:34 Secretary Nichols, Rodriguez Gomez, and the facilitator of the realm of Qatar, we're always
00:10:45 wishing the availability and strength and generosity and strength that they contribute
00:10:55 and respect that was always taken into the conversation between the two delegations.
00:11:06 With the presence of the Minister of State and the External Foreign Affairs Minister,
00:11:15 Mohamed Abdel, gave the signature of both documents.
00:11:27 I was showing you earlier the picture before of Mr. Nichols signing, and this is the Jorge
00:11:35 Rodriguez picture signing both understanding memorandums.
00:11:42 And what does this document say?
00:11:46 One of the things that we are trying, because we respect our word, have you seen some spokesmen
00:11:56 of the United States administration saying things in October, in November, that certain
00:12:06 dates are ahead and other, and we always say that we are not tolerating and will not tolerate
00:12:15 ultimatums, and that us, where we sign and we are compliant to this, this memorandum
00:12:27 about immigration and this one about political electoral subjects of Venezuela.
00:12:40 I want to read to you point by point so you can take conclusions by yourself who is compliant
00:12:48 with the agreements and who offended this word, who didn't set a value for the compliance
00:12:59 of this word, compromises that have been strengthened mutually.
00:13:08 In support of this purpose of normalization of diplomatic relationships, both of the participants
00:13:14 had the intention of taking these measures of both efforts.
00:13:23 Step one on the week one, but because of the delay by the United States delegation and
00:13:33 from the opposition of Venezuela, the week one became even more than half a month.
00:13:43 Venezuela has the intention of taking these measures to allow with informative purposes
00:13:54 a copy of a political agreement negotiated with POO.
00:14:06 We are not surrendering this copy, this roller, but we say to the director Blay that it was
00:14:13 our representative of POO, and like he consults a lot with the knowledge of what you can or
00:14:23 cannot do, you can't surrender this copy and this roller, and he did.
00:14:30 And then it was announced publicly through the POO the next dialogue round that was going
00:14:41 to be used in August 13, 2021, signing in Mexico with the government of Venezuela.
00:14:50 In the said step one, we compromise to both things.
00:14:58 Sign the copy with the informative character and to take a date to evaluate.
00:15:05 In this moment, in Mexico format, both things were done.
00:15:11 It was announced that we were going to be evaluated, and it was due a copy of this Barbados
00:15:22 agreement that is well known worldwide.
00:15:27 The United States is compromised to make a release backing the announcement of the start
00:15:38 of the conversations and to put specific licenses to facilitate the debt of police of the Republic
00:15:50 of Venezuela.
00:15:51 And to this, one of the greatest vulgarities held in the sanctions is if someone is owning
00:16:09 money to United States or stopping that those countries paid even when those countries had
00:16:16 the availability and disposition to pay.
00:16:19 So he's sending to his lapdogs, because like, by example, Haiti was the only license emitted
00:16:28 a long time after.
00:16:30 They did it for a partial amount, not a total amount of debt.
00:16:35 And we always been in this position to help the people of Haiti.
00:16:42 And that's why it was late, that payment.
00:16:47 To this day, no licenses have been emitted, nor for the Dominican Republic or Belize.
00:16:55 So who is fulfilling his word to take a license for diplomatic, for Trinidad and Tobago, and
00:17:09 also emitted confirmatory charts for European companies.
00:17:17 It was late, but it was fulfilled.
00:17:20 It had to be in the same time that the copy was surrendered, but they wait until the Barbados
00:17:26 Agreement and it wasn't fulfilled.
00:17:33 Week two, or step two.
00:17:37 Again, taking notes, who is complying, who don't, who has a word, and who don't.
00:17:49 Venezuela has the intention to take these steps.
00:17:54 Venezuela and Peru has the intention to sign a political agreement, the agreement of Barbados.
00:18:06 And then say the authorization of the presidential candidates of political parties, listen well,
00:18:13 that comply with the means that have been established to participate in the presidential
00:18:26 elections and the agreements of Venezuela and the Peru, consistent with the constitution
00:18:33 of Venezuela and the procedure established by the institutions of the country.
00:18:39 It sounds a little bit rough, but as the sign-up says, it can be by the constitution, all the
00:18:52 candidates that had the requirements.
00:18:58 The same day that we signed the Barbados Agreement, I want to be president of the republic.
00:19:08 My son Lucas said yesterday that he wanted to be president of the republic.
00:19:13 And he said, "You're going to have to wait because you're only eight years old."
00:19:19 Lucas has been repressed because he has a right to be president of the republic.
00:19:23 Can he comply with the requirements?
00:19:30 If you don't go in by the constitution or the republic laws, we cannot avail a situation
00:19:40 that violates the constitution and the laws.
00:19:43 And we say that not once, not twice, not only to Hector or Reynaldo.
00:19:51 We all say that, not only once, not twice, tens of times to the United States delegation.
00:20:03 That we were willing to create a mechanism that our delegation was brought by the unitary
00:20:14 platform, a mechanism to be in the Supreme Court, and eventually a person that was validated
00:20:23 by the republic laws can have a decision, because that's what the courts are.
00:20:33 The courts are to receive a request and to analyze the request and then make a sentence
00:20:41 and conclude.
00:20:43 And we say, whoever brought violence to Venezuela, whoever asked for actions against Venezuela,
00:20:53 whoever asked for a blockade against Venezuela, just two weeks ago, Maria keeps asking for
00:21:03 sanctions against Venezuela.
00:21:06 Leopoldo López, they keep continuing to ask for sanctions against Venezuela, and they
00:21:13 travel to the United States, going with the far right over there.
00:21:20 They traveled, they pushed to reimpose the sanctions against Venezuela.
00:21:28 And we say that a lot of times to the United States delegation.
00:21:34 So we decide to make a meeting with the Qatar delegation, and we say that we needed the
00:21:43 decision without alteration of the Republic of Venezuela, that whoever violates the laws
00:21:54 in the constitution or their found themselves upon any measure of inhabilitation cannot
00:22:00 request.
00:22:02 And if the court concludes that a person that asked for a foreign army to invade Venezuela,
00:22:13 that a multilateral force was created that applaud when Trump stole the gasoline in Venezuela,
00:22:23 but applaud when it was really hard to bring meds to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:22:36 So in which country in the world that can be good?
00:22:41 According to the constitution of Venezuela, that cannot be a candidate.
00:22:48 It will be acceptable in the United States to someone that asked the invasion of foreign
00:22:58 forces to invade the United States.
00:23:00 That will be acceptable, that will be acceptable in France and Spain?
00:23:04 No, of course not.
00:23:06 And we say that, and I say that personally not one, but tens of times.
00:23:15 And to all the representatives of the platform.
00:23:20 And we say that to the Norwegian facilitator, that always been the opposition facilitation.
00:23:31 But we've been going through that in the Norwegian facilitation, because they're always taking
00:23:38 sides.
00:23:43 We hope that that being translated to Norwegian.
00:23:48 A person that violates the constitution and the republic laws, and that is tied to a measure,
00:23:59 a kind one here, because in the United States it would be a life sentence.
00:24:08 Spain will be in jail, in France will be in jail.
00:24:13 Here, these are kind measures, inhabilitation to exercise public office.
00:24:24 How can you be the candidacy to someone that wants a foreign army to kill Venezuelan?
00:24:32 How can we think about that?
00:24:34 But we say tens of times, it is the facilitation here.
00:24:42 And you can ask them, it is there in the Norwegian facilitation.
00:24:48 And several times we were asked by some deputies from the digital platform, "Are you?"
00:24:56 No, we will never do that.
00:25:01 Are you?
00:25:03 We will never do that.
00:25:08 Someone can say if I am changing, you know, what we said.
00:25:16 We never, never will do that.
00:25:22 We'll never do that.
00:25:24 In the defense of the peace of our republic, in defense of our sovereignty, in defense
00:25:30 of our independence, we say that over and over again.
00:25:38 We reject any violence in the exercise of politics.
00:25:43 Also the rejection to measures that attempt against the peace and sovereignty of Venezuela.
00:25:51 This was signed by the United States delegation.
00:25:54 But since the start on May 7th until this day, there's nine that we have an idea of.
00:26:05 There is nine conspiracies against the peace of the republic.
00:26:10 Nine attempts against its life, even with the president of the republic.
00:26:22 And it was announced to the United States delegation.
00:26:29 The investigations because there are agents of the DA acting still in Colombia to reclude
00:26:38 terrorist and paramilitary teams.
00:26:41 And we say that several times.
00:26:48 And to be free of the compromises that is acquired in Venezuela in this step two, or
00:26:55 week two like it says here, announcement of the intention to be invited by a Venezuelan
00:27:02 competent, the European Union, the Carter Center, and several things that Venezuela
00:27:20 already do.
00:27:23 You can get through the verbatim agreement, the electoral registration, the electoral
00:27:33 observation.
00:27:34 We always do that.
00:27:35 We're always doing that in Venezuela.
00:27:40 There's countries that they don't allow electoral observations, but Venezuela does always.
00:27:46 So we don't have any issues of signing what is already in the laws of Venezuela and the
00:27:58 goodwill of the National Electoral Council of Venezuela.
00:28:09 This was our compromise.
00:28:11 The candidacy being fulfilled with the constitution and the laws, us and them, and Maria Machado,
00:28:22 and the two terrorists that the March 25th with guns they tried to attempt against the
00:28:29 life of the president of the republic.
00:28:32 And we're waiting there and the candidacy of this day according to this, those two,
00:28:42 and the oppressors of the white bracelet, and the terrorists from Colombia, and the
00:28:47 ones who tried to assassinate the governor of Venezuela also, but weren't only.
00:28:56 We had three compromises and we fulfilled all of them.
00:29:02 We signed with the so-called POO agreement on October 18th of 2023.
00:29:15 Here is the sign of the government delegation of Venezuela, and the other one is the POO
00:29:20 sign.
00:29:32 And more for the opposition by the Norwegian signature, but we've been carrying that for
00:29:40 three years.
00:29:44 So point one, on the moment two, being fulfilled.
00:30:02 The rejectment of any kind of violence, it was by our government, not by theirs.
00:30:11 The invitation of the European Union also, the indication of the approximate moment of
00:30:20 the elections.
00:30:21 We said it is no business our elections date, it is competition of electoral organism, and
00:30:31 as we signed with the POO, and the elections need to be held in the second semester of
00:30:40 2024.
00:30:41 That was our only compromise with the POO.
00:30:45 The second semester of 2024, and which semester of the year, the July 28th of the election
00:30:57 date it is located.
00:31:04 That was before the deaths were voted, but here the ones who has right to vote, they
00:31:13 do.
00:31:14 They're in the electoral council.
00:31:17 Free access and equal access, and balanced access in social media from the candidates.
00:31:28 All of them has free access except one, Nicolás Baduro, because there is a fraudulent reward
00:31:37 upon his head, signed by a prosecutor, alcoholic prosecutor that is in jail now.
00:31:49 The only one that went freely to the streets is Nicolás Baduro, because there were two
00:31:56 people already ready to kill him.
00:32:05 United States is compromised to emit a general license to make authorizations to the pressures
00:32:17 of oil, and companies associated with the Venezuelan bank, we signed on the October
00:32:29 17th of 2023, and United States didn't emit the license.
00:32:40 And this is what Maduro said, "We were ready to sign," and the president asked, "United
00:32:48 States emitted the license?"
00:32:50 And we say, "No, they didn't."
00:32:56 And Maduro said, "Sign still, because we have word, because we are decent people.
00:33:04 Let's sign, because we've been making a compromise with the platform that this document
00:33:11 needs to be signed, and we were making a compromise with the hostages of Barbados, and we made
00:33:21 a compromise with the Mexican government as well.
00:33:26 And we signed."
00:33:28 The next day, the United States of America emitted the license 44 from gas and oil.
00:33:44 And on the 19th and 16th, the Blinken secretary emitted the first ultimatum and the first
00:33:56 threat, because this is a very strong source, that either Blinken or Sullivan are really
00:34:08 happy.
00:34:09 They said back on October 19, a day after, Blinken puts an ultimatum of Maduro to rise
00:34:22 the opposition limitations.
00:34:28 And we have it over here.
00:34:30 One day after, and you will say, "Which part of the memorandum that I just read to
00:34:43 you, it says that?"
00:34:49 And the memorandum says that everyone that has the requirement can participate.
00:34:55 And we'll say, "Tens of times."
00:34:58 We will not do it.
00:35:06 And you can prove me wrong, because I have to, how to prove this.
00:35:15 United States gives Maduro until the 30th to rehabilitate Lera Corina Machado, dear
00:35:25 journalist.
00:35:26 Have you seen this in disagreement that was signed with the United States of America or
00:35:33 with the PU?
00:35:34 Any name?
00:35:37 Any date?
00:35:40 Any candidate?
00:35:41 No?
00:35:42 It's a lie.
00:35:49 They were not finding anything to do with his internal pressure.
00:35:53 And take a lie.
00:35:55 Instead of telling the truth in bravery, they lie.
00:36:00 That's why it's really important to speak with you, because for us, our word, it is
00:36:09 valuable.
00:36:10 It is valuable.
00:36:14 We are from one piece, President Maduro has said.
00:36:19 If we say that we're going to sign an agreement, if we say that we're going to abilitate the
00:36:27 electoral registration, if we say that we're going to make agreements in immigration within
00:36:34 the state, we fulfilled this wildly, like the decent people, like the people with dignity
00:36:44 do.
00:36:45 You can make your own judgment about this, because on the top of it, not 24 hours after
00:37:04 that an ultimatum was given to us, a consequence by a wicked situation that encourages the
00:37:15 United States of America to overcompensate.
00:37:26 It can be several sanctions, but the economical factors are inhibited to give us fuel in a
00:37:35 plan because we don't know if it has sanctions or doesn't.
00:37:42 A businessman from Venezuela has a right, because supposedly he's not under sanctions,
00:37:48 and he has a right to open bank accounts in foreign countries.
00:37:53 You can ask businessmen if they have been able to open bank accounts in other countries.
00:37:59 The same day, the Blinken say that it was to stop the influx of investors that were
00:38:09 coming to Venezuela.
00:38:11 So they're given a license and they're stepping on it by themselves.
00:38:24 Phase two of the week two, official announcement of the electoral calendar before it is finalized
00:38:34 the first four months of 2024.
00:38:38 It is expected that the electoral power of Venezuela announced the electoral chronogram
00:38:45 and invited the European Union Commission and the United Nations Commission.
00:38:54 March 5th of this 2024, the National Electoral Council and keeping sovereignty, because every
00:39:06 time that Pooh and the United States were asking where the electoral council, they were
00:39:15 going to make elections, it was a decision of the electoral council.
00:39:19 We can suggest, but it's the electoral council who decides with this, the constitution, and
00:39:31 to approve a decision is by the National Electoral Council.
00:39:38 And it was set for the July 28th of 2024.
00:39:44 And two days after, invited the observation missions and the St. Carter Center and several
00:39:53 members of the United Nations and African Union, President Zapatero as a figure, important
00:40:04 figure and different important as international observers.
00:40:11 Two days after, look what the United States did two days after.
00:40:25 I was getting a meeting with the St. Carter Center, but for agenda issues, I cannot do
00:40:32 it now, by the way.
00:40:38 At the same time, United States emitted a second general license to suspend all the
00:40:49 sanctions, economical sanctions, all of them, based on the national emergency, all of them,
00:41:00 all of the sanctions, from the Merida ones, the ones about the medicines, the one of dialysis
00:41:10 mechanism, the one that doesn't allow to have surgery for our children in European grounds,
00:41:24 water and electric supply, transportation, health, education.
00:41:32 So the March 5th of 2024, if you were compliant to this, and if Mr. Nichols respect this that
00:41:50 we have here, I will be truly ashamed that someone comes to me and say this, "You signed
00:42:05 this and you didn't comply with this."
00:42:09 I will be so ashamed, so ashamed.
00:42:15 That's why I buy my Volkswagen.
00:42:19 By credit, I pay every single one of the ... Because Venezuelans, we're really ashamed if
00:42:27 someone is asking you for the things that you own.
00:42:32 So Mr. Nichols, on March 5th of 2024, only to publish the electoral calendar with no
00:42:43 other requirement.
00:42:45 I repeat, before the first full month of 2024, it is expected to be announced electoral
00:43:01 chronogram.
00:43:03 At the same time, United States emitted a second license general to lift all the sanctions.
00:43:12 Who is lying?
00:43:14 Who is telling the truth?
00:43:17 Who is fulfilling with the Barbados Agreement and who is not?
00:43:23 Who is making valuable his word and who doesn't?
00:43:30 Who has been respectful of the international laws and the constitution laws and who has
00:43:38 not been?
00:43:41 Who has done everything here that I have been telling you by respect to these conversations
00:43:50 and with respect with very generous people, our brothers of Qatar, what they were saying
00:44:01 to every single time?
00:44:03 It's a method that we already know.
00:44:09 Associated Press meeting is filtered between Reuters.
00:44:21 The reason why Blinken secretary gave the ultimatum is because it's not been in compliance
00:44:31 the meetings are held in.
00:44:32 But you can read this word by word.
00:44:35 Not even a single job has been left behind.
00:44:47 And I cannot receive the delegations by other reasons, but they're here.
00:44:56 The European Union representative came, but they're coming.
00:45:05 So who is lying?
00:45:15 We of course are having a reaction, most of all because of the defense of the truth.
00:45:26 Because my secretary, Tischer, told me that we didn't need to have a vice, but I'm going
00:45:35 to give you one.
00:45:37 You should shoot your own foot.
00:45:41 I doubled because Venezuela has proven that in the middle of the most brutal sanctions
00:45:50 that were asked for by the far right and that the Trump administration generously gave for
00:46:02 the suffering of Venezuelan people, where it doesn't have anything to do with what
00:46:11 we just saw.
00:46:14 It has to do with the pressures and with the United States government not agreeing with
00:46:25 the free elections in Venezuela.
00:46:27 Because a free election will imply that we are all free to use the money of Venezuela,
00:46:34 not to be stolen by Juan Guaidó.
00:46:37 No, to be stolen by Leopoldo López.
00:46:50 On top of those sanctions, Venezuela, we're going to get through this.
00:47:01 There's going to be elections, presidential elections on the July 28th of 2024.
00:47:06 It is going to be like this.
00:47:07 And we're going to get through this.
00:47:09 We're going to thrive.
00:47:11 There is inscript candidates and inscript parties because we have proof that we have
00:47:18 the means, that we can produce the food that we eat.
00:47:23 We have proof that we're going to thrive, stepping on all those sanctions.
00:47:30 And we can get to consensus and alliances with sectors that it could look like impossible
00:47:39 to do.
00:47:41 But right now there is agreement against the sanctions, and we're going to get through
00:47:48 this.
00:47:55 I don't know if Europe and the United States don't need the Venezuelan oil.
00:48:03 You need to consider that.
00:48:05 And there's another memorandum that we signed, an immigration matter, that Venezuela allowed
00:48:11 and ordained way 15 planes of repatriate were received here.
00:48:19 All of them, we're going to receive them with open arms.
00:48:25 And then there's been an invasion of the migratory influx because Venezuela is living an important
00:48:36 period of recovery.
00:48:38 So we're restorating the wounds that you inflicted us.
00:48:49 I don't know if you don't need the gas and oil of Venezuela.
00:48:53 I don't know.
00:48:56 And in immigration, the same day that the Entresur plane was told, the same day that
00:49:09 it was slaughtered in a brutal way in Florida, we gave us not in compliance the immigration
00:49:24 agreement because we have a word.
00:49:31 And if you comply to this word, okay.
00:49:35 If you don't, we will speak when you get back your word and your sign.
00:49:45 We will speak when you take back your own word and your own sign.
00:49:52 There's any question?
00:49:55 Hi, Colombia.
00:49:58 Well, the first one is, given everything that you just saw, you just proved, I was
00:50:12 proven.
00:50:14 I'm not telling, I'm proven.
00:50:17 That's what I'm just...
00:50:21 And what you just proved in which status the conversation with the United States are, given
00:50:30 the decision of the United States with a 44 license to close the door of the conversation
00:50:37 in this matter.
00:50:38 And in the same symphony, this video conference that was held on Monday, that was what was
00:50:48 happening with this second was how to lift all the sanctions of Venezuela.
00:50:57 And the other question will be precisely with the immigration agreement that you're pointing
00:51:04 out that the flights are suspended.
00:51:11 And I want to ask for other details in the immigration agreement.
00:51:15 And the last word has to be with the Norwegian facilitation.
00:51:19 Because you spoke about the respect that you held with the Qatari facilitators, but it's
00:51:28 not the same from the Norwegian ones.
00:51:30 So the government, the delegation has some issues with the Norwegian facilitation.
00:51:36 There will be a change of facilitation to continue with the dialogues.
00:51:49 We suspected, but we didn't qualify in the whole magnitude about the Norwegian facilitation
00:52:01 until we met the Qatari facilitation.
00:52:06 The Netflix series should be dropped, all the series, because they cannot respect and
00:52:16 facilitate a dialogue.
00:52:18 There is a representative from the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Norway that he called
00:52:23 four days ago to a person saying that we need to facilitate and abilitate to no one knows
00:52:44 who.
00:52:45 So the United States will renew the license 44.
00:52:51 If we would sign that we are going to be abilitating to this person, you can swear on it that we
00:53:03 will move forward in this topic.
00:53:06 Because we're in compliance with all that we promised we did.
00:53:15 So what's a Norwegian representative doing?
00:53:22 And we've been through hard times.
00:53:26 By example, when the embassy was manipulated for hide the agreements with the both parts
00:53:42 are being having an agreement in the Sekiba ground.
00:53:47 That's making a facilitation.
00:53:53 And I have several stories, but that can be ordered in another press conference or in
00:54:01 another time that we write a book, take away the Nobel Prize award to them and give it
00:54:12 to Qatar.
00:54:13 And the immigration agreement that is over here, signature from Nichols the same day
00:54:28 and Rodríguez signature.
00:54:36 And there was the intention and the decision to respect the air company and was compliant
00:54:50 with all the legal requirements.
00:54:55 And the plane was in the United States and that's what it broke.
00:54:59 And it's okay.
00:55:04 You can be a superpower, but if you don't have a word, you're nothing.
00:55:12 In front of the decent eyes of this earth, you're nothing.
00:55:20 You can be a big power, but you have an important deficiency and it's the lack of word and lack
00:55:31 of compromise.
00:55:36 So we weren't us who violated the agreements, not us.
00:55:53 Every single time that we held a meeting with the United States delegation after the March
00:55:59 5th, we say, "You have the obligation from the March 5th to lift every sanction against
00:56:08 Venezuela and you have to comply."
00:56:11 Internal issues, okay, but you signed that.
00:56:25 I was not going to sign something that I didn't have the authorization by the internal policies
00:56:32 in this constitution.
00:56:34 That's why every single time that I was asked, "No, we will never do."
00:56:40 That was the answer.
00:56:43 That's why, you know what I'm talking about, right?
00:56:46 Okay, thank you.
00:56:50 We will never close the door.
00:56:53 That's why we are here to get away from the lies since October 19 until now and swipe
00:57:03 that down.
00:57:06 At least try again to wreck the truth.
00:57:14 And because we have the truth with us, we're going to do it again because we have a lot
00:57:21 of testimonies.
00:57:22 Thank you.
00:57:23 Patricia Villegas, by Telesur.
00:57:24 How are you?
00:57:25 I have several questions, so I'm going to make all of them and I hope you try to answer
00:57:39 all of them.
00:57:44 The first question is, how has been the last conversations held?
00:57:52 If you can give us some details.
00:57:55 Most of all the Mexico conversations.
00:57:58 In internal political matters with the opposition sector, there's different rates that the Venezuelans
00:58:17 reject the politics of the far right and that is known to comply several factors.
00:58:25 Fourth, what you read and what we read before the Barbados agreement, it was really clear
00:58:34 who could and who could not comply in the electoral process.
00:58:39 So what's the analysis about this?
00:58:42 Fifth, it is evident that the dialect mechanism is in crisis in front of this fact.
00:58:49 So the mechanism is suggesting any path to follow, Doha or other.
00:58:58 Sixth, any message to the people of Venezuela, the regular people of Venezuela, you can feel
00:59:07 uncertainty or worry for the announcement of the sanctions.
00:59:13 What are you saying to the people that it can be thinking this in your own country?
00:59:22 Is this a surprise this moment for you?
00:59:31 All the contacts that we established, the biggest contacts in the Mexico meetings were
00:59:40 Francisco Palmieri.
00:59:42 I don't know what his responsibility is, but he has diplomatic responsibilities in Colombia.
00:59:48 That has ties with whatever is happening in Venezuela.
01:00:00 We have not been allowed to name an ambassador in the United States.
01:00:06 So whenever we were able to do that, they can name one in Venezuela.
01:00:15 We always ask them to comply with the agreements.
01:00:22 Don't go under to the extremism in Venezuela.
01:00:27 Venezuela has sectors and political factors that goes further away from the far right
01:00:33 and the coup d'etat and the military situation, the catastrophic situation that they are trying
01:00:39 to solve here.
01:00:41 There are other political sectors in Venezuela, the opposition, a real and true opposition,
01:00:47 even other sectors of the politics that make alive the electoral platform.
01:00:55 Don't listen only to this.
01:00:58 Again, they went under and they surrendered the lead of the so-called opposition, because
01:01:09 that's not the opposition of Venezuela to the far right and the extremism.
01:01:15 And we will not allow that.
01:01:17 That's why every single time that we've been asked, "Are you going to?"
01:01:22 No, we will never do that.
01:01:25 Never.
01:01:26 Not this life, not in another one.
01:01:28 Not this universe, not in another one.
01:01:30 We'll never do that.
01:01:32 So, to a good listener, the impact, of course, it can make a damage.
01:01:43 They will be trying to for a lot of time.
01:01:47 I was told and it was right.
01:01:52 I don't think that they act in compliance.
01:02:00 But let's sign, but I don't think that they will comply, because they never wanted the
01:02:07 goods for Venezuela.
01:02:11 Because the far right that is living here needs and seeks the suffering of the people,
01:02:22 because they have all the sanctions.
01:02:27 They didn't lift the sanctions and they will make obstacle to the normal influx.
01:02:34 And they were getting the payroll, the electrical system, beside of the violence, of course.
01:02:45 What would happen if the March 25th, the attempt against President Maduro was done?
01:02:56 How would be the situation in Venezuela now, a days?
01:03:02 And we signed.
01:03:07 And even when we had a lot of signs, they will not be in compliance.
01:03:14 And sadly, they're going under again, under the far right.
01:03:19 But this time, not even a single move we're going to make about the far right of Venezuela.
01:03:30 Not even a single move.
01:03:34 If they would have some decency and dignity, they didn't ask for actions against Venezuela.
01:03:46 Let's ask for the businessmen, to the businessmen, the ones that are voting for the opposition
01:03:54 in Venezuela.
01:03:55 What are their thoughts about the sanctions of the United States against Venezuela?
01:04:01 Of course, it is a harmful action against Venezuela.
01:04:06 So I'm saying to the people of Venezuela, if we lift the sanctions of Trump here, we're
01:04:18 not going to be able to thrive.
01:04:19 But we are going to, and we're going to prove it.
01:04:27 We're going to prove, and they're going to see with the shots that they shot themselves,
01:04:36 with this both agreements that they didn't comply.
01:04:42 We're going to prove our self-worth with a good life and with a recovery, more than we
01:04:48 already are in recovery.
01:04:52 But with the far right and the extremism that is always thinking how to twist the destiny
01:05:01 of the republic.
01:05:03 Now you can go to the United States if you want.
01:05:05 You can go there.
01:05:09 You can say and ask that foreign countries are invading the United States, but here,
01:05:14 no, never more.
01:05:17 Not now, but no, no, never mind.
01:05:21 There's no step forward.
01:05:23 This is the line.
01:05:30 Our invitation is, United States is not backing to the ones, the immense people of Venezuela.
01:05:44 Our invitation is that the people of Venezuela rise as voice with the greatest strength possible
01:05:50 against the sanctions, against the ones that are asking for those sanctions.
01:06:07 So there has to be a time, because Venezuela has an article in the constitution, has to
01:06:14 be a time that article 113 can be instrumentalized in law shape, because this is speaking about
01:06:24 the invasion and violence against Venezuela.
01:06:30 The ones that are trying to steal the Guayana's Akiva grounds, like this ambassador in London,
01:06:39 Vanessa Norman, I think that is called, Norman.
01:06:51 This is our message, and I think it's the seventh question I already asked, I already
01:06:58 answered you.
01:07:00 Let's sign, but they're not going to comply.
01:07:06 And we stood every single time that AP went, like we were secretly united.
01:07:17 We came from the White House, but we stood up in silence.
01:07:43 We were live to Caracas, Venezuela, listening to the President of the National Assembly,
01:07:47 Jorge Rodríguez, who highlighted the willingness of the government of President Nicolás Maduro
01:07:53 to preserve the sovereignty of the country in the face of foreign threats and in the
01:07:57 face of hostilities that the U.S. maintains towards the nation, despite the memorandum
01:08:02 of understanding between the two sides.
01:08:05 The official also highlighted the need to build bridges of dialogue and respect, and
01:08:10 denounced the unilateral sanctions imposed by Washington and imposition he described
01:08:15 as illegal.
01:08:16 So this is all for the moment.
01:08:18 You'll find more updates in upcoming news brief.
01:08:21 Stay tuned.