Guaidó says meeting with Maduro’s government in Oslo ended without agreement

The mediation meeting promoted by Norway to resolve the political conflict between the Executive of Nicolás Maduro and the Venezuelan opposition culminated “without agreement”, announced on Wednesday the Communication Center of the interim government proclaimed by the head of Parliament,

“This meeting ended without agreement, we have insisted that mediation will be useful for Venezuela as long as there are elements that allow us to move forward towards a true solution, so we remain in the fight until the crisis is resolved,” the opposition said in a statement. release.

The text indicates that the opposition is willing to continue with Norway to find a solution to the Venezuelan crisis.

“We thank the Norwegian government for its willingness to contribute to a solution to the chaos that our country suffers, and we are ready to continue with them, as we have been doing with the Lima Group and the Contact Group in the search for a solution. so many times exposed, “he said.

As previously announced, the Venezuelan opposition was represented in Oslo by the second vice president of the Parliament, Stalin González; the former mayor of the Caracas municipality of Baruta Gerardo Blyde and the former transport and communications minister Fernando Martínez Mottola (1992-1993).

Meanwhile, the government delegation was made up of the Minister of Communication, Jorge Rodríguez, the governor of the state of Miranda (center-north), Héctor Rodríguez and the chancellor Jorge Arreaza.

The opposition also thanked the international community for trying to find solutions to the crisis “we know that this initiative of Norway has been one of the multiple efforts (…) to reach an urgent and effective solution to the Venezuelan crisis”.

He also reiterated that his approach to solving the situation in his country “is based on restoring the constitutional order and ensuring that Venezuelans can decide their fate in free, observable and verifiable elections.”

Earlier, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the parties showed “willingness to move forward in the search for an agreed and constitutional solution,” which includes political, economic and electoral issues.

“In order to preserve the process that allows results to be achieved, the parties are requested to take the utmost care with respect to the reservation of the same, both in their comments and in their statements,” the text added.

Venezuela has experienced a peak of political tension since last January, when Maduro swore a new six-year term after winning elections that were branded as fraudulent by the opposition, and in response Guaidó was proclaimed as interim president.

Since then, the political conflict has intensified and several countries, including Norway, are trying to promote mechanisms to find a negotiated solution to the Venezuelan crisis.

Norway has been a facilitator in some twenty dialogue processes in recent decades, such as the one that led to the signing of the Oslo agreements between Israelis and Palestinians or the talks between the Colombian government and the FARC.