Venezuela Confirms Meeting with US, Says Qatar Deal Breached
Source: Bloomberg
Venezuela Confirms Meeting with US, Says Qatar Deal Breached
Andreina Itriago Acosta and Nicolle Yapur
Fri, April 12, 2024 at 7:35 PM EDT·2 min read
(Bloomberg) -- Venezuela confirmed it met with US officials earlier this week and alleged that the Biden administration had breached a Qatar-brokered deal between the parties.
During the April 9 meeting in Mexico City, the parties reviewed their discussions of sanctions and migration last year in Doha, Venezuela said in a statement Friday. “We pointed out the failure of the North American administration to comply with the agreed schedule for lifting sanctions,” it said, without giving further details.
US officials met secretly with members of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s administration to keep him engaged in negotiations over democratic reforms, Bloomberg reported earlier. The talks took place days before the scheduled April 18 expiration of a US license allowing the nation’s oil and gas industry to operate without the threat of sanctions.
During the encounter, Venezuela demanded the lifting of all sanctions, according to the statement. US representatives included Daniel Erikson of the US National Security Council and Francisco Palmieri, chief of mission of the Venezuelan Affairs Unit, Bloomberg reported.
Maduro has been testing the limits of a US-backed electoral agreement with the opposition last year. ...
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