(VOVWORLD) - In her first statement on Sunday on social media as Venezuela's Interim President, Delcy Rodriguez said Venezuela wants to invite the US government to collaborate on an agenda of cooperation within the framework of international law.
The website of the Venezuelan President’s Office on Sunday night (local time) published a statement announcing that Vice President Delcy Rodríguez had assumed the role of Acting President after Nicolás Maduro was arrested by the US in a raid a day earlier.
Ms. Rodríguez later posted a photo on Instagram showing her chairing the first Cabinet meeting since taking office. She wrote that Venezuela aspires to live without external threats and insisted on the right to peace, development, sovereignty and a future.
But she also adopted “a more conciliatory tone toward the Trump administration” when saying that Venezuela wants to invite the US government to collaborate on an agenda of cooperation oriented towards shared development within the framework of international law to strengthen lasting community coexistence."
In a message to US President Donald Trump, Delcy Rodríguez said, “Our peoples and our region deserve peace and dialogue, not war.”
Earlier in a televised address on Saturday (local time), before assuming the role of Acting President of Venezuela, Rodríguez had already conveyed the message, saying this has always been the message of President Nicolás Maduro and of Venezuela right now.
“We seek relationships based on mutual respect. We seek relationships that operate within the framework of international law and the laws of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. This is the only model of relations that we will accept,” said Rodríguez.
The United Nations Security Council convened an emergency meeting on Monday (local time) in New York at the request of several countries, including Venezuela and Colombia. The international community continues to express concern over instability in Venezuela.
South American countries including Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, plus Spain—an European country with close ties to the region—issued a joint statement opposing unilateral military actions in Venezuela, describing them as a threat to regional peace and civilians. These countries called for a purely peaceful solution through dialogue led by Venezuelans themselves, while stressing that Latin America and the Caribbean are zones of peace.