The Chancellor of the Republic, Manuel Ventura Robles, will travel next week to Buenos Aires, Argentina to hold meetings with his counterparts from the countries that make up the Lima Group, which intensifies international pressure on the regime of Nicolás Maduro to look for a solution to the crisis in Venezuela.
The press office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed to CRHoy.com that the meetings will be held on July 22nd and 23rd. The Minister will be accompanied by the alternate director of Foreign Policy, Alejandra Solano.
The last meeting of the group -comprised of more than a dozen countries- was held in Guatemala City on June 6th. The ministers called for intensifying international pressure on the dictatorial and illegitimate regime of Maduro to seek a peaceful solution to the Venezuelan crisis, which they consider a threat to regional peace.
In turn, the meeting of foreign ministers in Buenos Aires will be the first since July 5th, when the report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, urged the Government of Maduro to end the serious violations of rights in the country.
The document, which was criticized by the Chavez regime as “biased” and full of “serious methodological errors.”
The last joint declaration of the Lima Group dates back to June 30th, when the Governments of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Lucia and Venezuela – represented by the leader of the Parliament Juan Guaidó, who was awarded the powers of the Executive-condemned the death that day of the captain of Venezuelan corvette Rafael Acosta Arévalo.
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