{"id":93640,"date":"2024-09-12T13:19:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T11:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thediplomatinspain.com\/2024\/09\/12\/sanchez-afirma-que-espana-trabaja-por-el-dialogo-en-venezuela-tras-reunirse-con-edmundo-gonzalez\/93640\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T13:53:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T11:53:56","slug":"sanchez-says-spain-is-working-for-dialogue-in-venezuela-after-meeting-with-edmundo-gonzalez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thediplomatinspain.com\/en\/2024\/09\/12\/sanchez-says-spain-is-working-for-dialogue-in-venezuela-after-meeting-with-edmundo-gonzalez\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e1nchez says Spain is working \u2018for dialogue\u2019 in Venezuela after meeting with Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The President of the Government, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, has told Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez that Spain is working \u2018in favour of democracy and dialogue\u2019 in Venezuela, a day after the Congress of Deputies urged the Executive to recognise him as president-elect.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

S\u00e1nchez received Gonz\u00e1lez at the Moncloa Palace this morning, in a meeting that the government had not included in the official agenda, five days after Gonz\u00e1lez landed in Madrid in a Spanish Air Force plane after leaving Venezuela of his own free will and with the intention of requesting asylum, reports Europa Press.<\/p>\n

\u2018I warmly welcome Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez to our country, whom we welcome as a sign of Spain’s humanitarian commitment and solidarity with Venezuelans,\u2019 S\u00e1nchez said in a message on the social network X, which he accompanied with images in which the two are seen strolling through the gardens of Moncloa and chatting.<\/p>\n

\u2018Spain continues to work in favour of democracy, dialogue and the fundamental rights of the brotherly people of Venezuela\u2019, said the President of the Government, who the day before had defended the need for the EU to maintain its \u201cunity\u201d on this issue in order to have the capacity to \u201cmediate\u201d and thus be able to bring about a solution to the Venezuelan crisis.<\/p>\n

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In a statement issued after the meeting with S\u00e1nchez, Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez – who arrived in Madrid last Sunday on board an Air Force plane after leaving Venezuela, at his own request, to request asylum in Spain – said that he had had “a very pleasant and interesting conversation” with the President of the Government, whom he thanked for his welcome in Spain and conveyed his “recognition for his interest in working for the recovery of democracy and respect for Human Rights in our country.”<\/p>\n

During the interview, the statement continued, Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez expressed to S\u00e1nchez his “determination to continue the fight to enforce the sovereign will of the Venezuelan people expressed on July 28 by more than eight million voters.”<\/p>\n

The Government has assured that the arrival of Gonz\u00e1lez to Spain, who spent a few days in the residence of the Spanish ambassador after remaining a refugee since June 29 in the Embassy of the Netherlands, has not been negotiated with Caracas and that there has been no compensation. In this regard, both S\u00e1nchez and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Albares, have stressed that Spain’s position has not changed and is to demand the publication of all the minutes of the presidential elections of July 28 and not recognize the “supposed victory” of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n

The meeting took place a day after the Congress of Deputies approved, with the vote against the PSOE and with the support of Vox, PNV, UPN and CC, a Non-Law Proposal of the PP in which the Government is asked to recognize Gonz\u00e1lez Urrutia as the elected president of Venezuela. The Venezuelan National Assembly responded immediately with the approval of a resolution in which the president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, is asked to break diplomatic relations with Spain. The Government has shielded itself in the fact that the position of the Twenty-Seven is not to do so for now and has argued that there is a “reasonable time” to achieve a negotiated solution before January 10, when the winner of the elections must take office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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