The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, welcomed "positively" the recent American proposals for a negotiated exit from the political crisis in Venezuela on Friday 3 April, following a Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
The United States recently proposed that the country's leader, Nicolás Maduro, and his opponent, Juan Guaidó, who has declared himself interim president, should take a step aside to facilitate the formation of an interim government made up of members of both camps and charged with organising elections in the coming months.
This proposal is in line with the EU's position in favour of "a peaceful way out of the crisis through a negotiated path to a democratic government", Borrell said in a statement. It noted "with interest" the new US approach to lifting sanctions, which would depend on the democratic progress observed. (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)