He revealed that they are still analyzing asset management and the 2015 National Assembly.
Despite the fact that Nicolás Maduro has said that he is “prepared” to resume diplomatic relations with Washington, the US government underlines its support for the opposition National Assembly and insists on demanding a path to democracy from Caracas.
The administration of President Joe Biden does not rule out the reopening of formal diplomatic channels with the government of Nicolás Maduro, according to the State Department’s undersecretary for hemisphere affairs, Brian Nichols.
The official, in an interview with the Voice of America, said that the United States would have to see “profound changes and progress towards free and transparent elections in that country” to make a decision like that, something that he described as “very far from reality.” of this moment”.
Washington reiterated this week its support for the opposition National Assembly, elected in 2015, as the “only democratic vestige of the country” and stressed that its “focus” on Nicolás Maduro, whom it classifies as “illegitimate”, has not changed.
Referring to the possible recognition of Nicolás Maduro by other countries, the official said that if the government’s treatment “pushes” towards specific purposes, it would be “appropriate.”
Among the requirements, Nichols highlighted that the international community can “insist that the Nicolás Maduro regime be part of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, that it accept the recommendations of the electoral observation mission of the European Union and that the fundamental rights of the people”.
Nichols indicated that the US government does not rule out the possibility of internal “modifying the regulations” to allow the 2015 National Assembly to supervise the assets of the Venezuelan state in the United States, including the oil subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, Citgo.
The official stressed that the changes to the statute will be made “if necessary.”
We still don’t know exactly what shape it will take. [el extinto gobierno interino]because they are still debating within the National Assembly,” he said.
Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Council of the Americas, said that “the United States was left in a very difficult position” after the parliament’s decision to end the interim government.
“These are going to have to be questions that are decided now in Court and they are going to be very politicized,” Farnsworth told VOA.
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