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Caracas.- The Executive Vice President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, chaired this Sunday, as acting president, her first council of ministers, in which she created a commission to manage the release of Nicolás Maduro, captured in Venezuelan territory during a US military operation, a country to which she extended a hand to address a "cooperation agenda".
Rodríguez, who was summoned by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) to serve as acting president, also addressed the issue of the country's security, indicated the Minister of Communication and Information, Freddy Ñáñez, in a statement broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV) at the end of the ministerial meeting.Relationship with the U.S.
Previously, Rodríguez, in a statement published on Telegram, which she signed as acting president despite the fact that there has been no public swearing-in ceremony, extended an "invitation to the U.S. Government to work together on a cooperation agenda, aimed at shared development, within the framework of international legality and (that) strengthens a lasting community coexistence.""President Donald Trump: our peoples and our region deserve peace and dialogue, not war. That has been the predicament of President Nicolás Maduro and it is that of all Venezuela at this moment," added the senior official.
Commission for the Liberation of Maduro
Ñáñez announced the creation of the high-level commission to manage the release of Maduro, captured in the early hours of Saturday by the United States amid an attack on Caracas and other neighboring states such as Miranda, La Guaira and Aragua (north).You may be interested in: Delcy Rodríguez invites the US to work on a cooperation agenda
The instance will be chaired by the head of Parliament, Jorge Rodríguez, who is also the head of the Venezuelan government delegation for dialogue with the United States, and composed of the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Yván Gil, the president of the government program for the repatriation of migrants 'Gran Misión Vuelta a la Patria', Camila Fabri, and the Minister of Communication himself. According to Ñáñez, Rodríguez also visited the wounded from the attack suffered the day before, whom he described as "young, brave and heroic soldiers who put their chests to defend" the "sovereignty", the "integrity" and Maduro. "We want, finally, to certify that at this hour our homeland far and wide is in absolute peace, is in absolute protection of the Government institutions that have been deployed to guarantee security," added the minister at the end of the meeting. In the Council of Ministers, among others, the head of Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, and the Minister of Interior and Justice, Diosdado Cabello, also participated, according to images from VTV.
