Spain and the Netherlands discuss political rights in Venezuela
The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, has spoken this Thursday with his counterpart from the Netherlands, Caspar Veldkamp, about how to guarantee the political rights and physical integrity of Venezuelan opposition leaders.
This is what Albares has communicated through the social network X: “I have spoken with my new counterpart from the Netherlands @ministerBZ. Our bilateral relationship and cooperation in the EU contribute to “building Europe.”
He added: “We talked about Venezuela and how to guarantee the political rights and physical integrity of opposition leaders.”
Albares made this conversation public after Venezuela’s Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, confirmed on Thursday that the arrest warrant against the standard-bearer of the main opposition coalition – the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) – Edmundo González Urrutia, and the investigation against him related to the allegation of fraud in the presidential elections of July 28, remain in force.
On August 22, the Supreme Court endorsed the result of the National Electoral Council (CNE) that declared Nicolás Maduro the winner, a victory that the opposition led by González Urrutia and María Corina Machado refuse to recognize and multiple Latin American countries have also questioned.
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