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Caracas, January 12 (RHC)-- On behalf of President Nicolás Maduro, Foreign Minister Yván Gil today thanked his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodríguez, for rejecting the call for intervention in Venezuela by former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe.

“Faced with the threats of a declining empire and its local accomplices, Venezuela is strengthened with the unconditional support of friends and supportive allies,” the senior diplomat wrote on his Telegram account.

Gil extended his most sincere thanks to Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez “for his firm rejection of irresponsible calls for military intervention, which threaten the life and peace of our peoples.”

Rodríguez stated in X that “the irresponsible requests for an international military intervention in Venezuela, made by various actors, are a serious fact that we reject and that, if this adventure were to go ahead, it would have considerable and unpredictable consequences for regional peace and security.”

The Bolivarian Minister for Foreign Affairs also valued what he called “timely statements” by Iran in rejection of the plans for military intervention and the hardening of unilateral coercive measures promoted by those who seek to destabilize peace.

In this regard, he expressed his deep gratitude to the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic, Esmail Baqai, for his message of congratulations to the Venezuelan people after the peaceful and democratic inauguration of Maduro on January 10th.

At an event the day before in Cúcuta, Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010) called for “an international intervention, preferably endorsed by the United Nations,” to oust the legitimate constitutional government of Nicolás Maduro, who was sworn in as President for a new six-year term.

The former Colombian president was joined on social network X by the fugitive from Venezuelan justice and resident abroad (Spain), Leopoldo López, who asked to “seriously consider the proposal.” 

[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]