Colombian and Venezuelan lawmakers assess the progress and challenges following the resumption of relations promoted by Colombian president Gustavo Petro and his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro.
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00:00Colombian and Venezuelan lawmakers assessed the progress and challenges following the
00:05resumption of relations promoted by Colombian President Gustavo Petra and his Venezuelan
00:10counterpart Nicolás Maduro.
00:12The meeting began at 9 a.m. local time.
00:15Colombian deputies hosted their Venezuelan counterparts in the city of Bogota to follow
00:21up and deepen commercial and friendly relations between the two nations.
00:25Likewise, the parties will discuss the lines of action for a plan on the border, the need
00:30to promote the initiatives that allow the linking of the institutions and the peoples,
00:35as well as the other subjects of mutual interest.
00:39The reestablishment of commercial and friendly relations between Bogota and Caracas came
00:43after Gustavo Petra took over the Colombian presidency after 60 years of estrangement.
00:49The first thing is to tell people that we are working for the effective reestablishment
01:02in all senses of relations between Colombia and Venezuela.
01:06Something absolutely terrible that happened is that we went from an exchange of $7 billion
01:11to $220 million, and when more than 90% of the resources are no longer exchanged, it
01:16is not the governments that suffer, but the people.
01:20So this commission for the reestablishment of relations between Colombia and Venezuela,
01:24created in a bicameral manner, for the Senate and the Chamber, will allow this accompaniment
01:29or has been doing so with two draft agreements that have already passed through the Congress
01:33of the Republic.
01:35With the visit today of some deputies after we were also in Cucuta in a meeting, setting
01:39up this binational commission.