Broken ice!South America will rebuild diplomatic relations

According to foreign media reports such as Peninsula TV, Columbia and Venezuela Foreign Minister of South America announced on the 28th local time that the two countries will rebuild diplomatic relations after a few years of tension.

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On Thursday, local time, Colombia was waiting for Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva and Venezuela Foreign Minister Carlos Faria to meet in the border city of St. Cristo.

The two parties later announced in a joint statement that since the newly elected President Gustavo Petro on August 7, the two countries will appoint new ambassadors and reopen the consulate.

In the joint statement of Lava, Lava said that the two countries recognized the willingness to consolidate friendship and cooperation between the two parties, and will examine the concerns of all two countries in the future to benefit the people of the two countries. The statement states that the governments of the two countries are willing to work together to ensure border security and peace.

The two foreign ministers met. Picture source: Venezuela News Network Social Media "Telegraph" account

Chang'an Street Knowledge (WeChat ID: CapitalNews) noticed that in recent years, the relationship between Colombia and Venezuela has always shown unstable on a series of issues, including Venezuela under the social and economic crisis, the number of immigrants across Columbia surged across the border. Wait.

In addition, the 2219 kilometers of the two countries has always been a place for armed groups, including the "Columbia National PLA" (ELN) and "Columbia Revolutionary Armed Forces" (FARC), which exacerbates the tension between the two countries Essence

The upcoming Colombian President Duke had accused Venezuelan President Madro "hidden armed groups", while Maduro accused Duke "trying to overthrow the government." In 2019, Duke also refused to admit that Maduro was re -elected as president, which caused the relationship between the two countries to worsen.

Maduro data map source: Visual China

Since Duke took office in 2018, Colombia has been supporting the Venezuela opposition leader, Huan Guado, to overthrow the Maduro government. In 2019, Guydo had a self -proclaimed "temporary president" and was recognized by the United States, Colombia and other countries, which led to the drop of relations between the two countries to the freezing point.

Madro immediately announced a break with the United States and announced the closure of the border with Colombia to prevent US "assistance" from entering the country through Colombia.

In February of that year, Maduro announced that Venezuela and Columbia broke all diplomatic relations, limited to leaving the country within 24 hours. "We can't tolerate (the United States) to use the Colombian territory against Venezuela," he said.

Gustwa Petro (middle). Source: Peninsula TV Station

Chang'an Street Knowledge (WeChat ID: CapitalNews) noticed that Petro, who is about to become Columbia's first left -wing president, previously announced that the new government will seek communication channels with Venezuela.

After a few hours of winning the election, Petro announced that he had negotiated with the Madro government and expressed his hope to restore the relationship with Venezuela.

Columbia's appointed foreign minister Lava commented that he and the Venezuela Foreign Minister's local time on Thursday was "historic".

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