The Government says it promotes elections in Venezuela and not "sterile controversies"
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha González Laya, has defended this Saturday that the Spanish position regarding Venezuela should be to favor that "free, transparent and democratic elections" be held in that country, instead of contributing to "sterile controversies ".
After meeting with the Canarian president, Ángel Víctor Torres, the minister stressed that both in this matter, as in the 'brexit', as in the delimitation of the maritime waters of Morocco, "what matters is that there is a position of State ", which is what will provide Spain" strength to speak with determination and impact on our international relations ".
"The position of Spain is to contribute to free, transparent and democratic elections, in which the Venezuelan people decide how they want to govern for the future. That's where Spain has to be, not in sterile controversies," Gonzalez said. Laya, hours before meeting in Madrid with Juan Guaidó in his capacity as "president of the National Assembly of Venezuela and president in charge of Venezuela".
"What I am going to look for is that in all this there are State policies," as he will repeat when he appears before Congress and the Senate, as he has requested, he has said.
Back from his first institutional visit to Morocco and after realizing this Saturday in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to the Canarian president of the route that the recent Moroccan law of delimitation of its territorial waters will have, in which he incorporates these Spanish islands, González Laya She has been asked about the controversy that this Friday at the Madrid-Barajas Airport meeting between the Minister of Transportation, José Luis Ábalos, and the Vice President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez.
In this regard, he said that she, as responsible for Spanish diplomacy, "does not know" that the United States has filed a complaint for this "fortuitous meeting."
"I want to insist that where Spain has to be is to contribute in a solid way and, when possible, please discreetly, to accompany Venezuelans in resolving their internal conflict," González Laya added.
