Washington [US], January 4 (ANI): The United States on Tuesday mentioned that it didn’t recognise Nicolas Maduro because the legit President of Venezuela, the White House mentioned in a press launch.

In the assertion, State Department spokesperson Ned Price mentioned, “The United States continues to recognize the democratically elected 2015 National Assembly as the last remaining democratic institution in Venezuela, and we welcome the agreement reached to extend its authority.”

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Notably, the US acknowledged opposition chief Juan Guaido because the Interim President of Venezuela.

“We continue to call on Nicolas Maduro to make meaningful progress in the negotiations in Mexico with the Unitary Platform focused on the 2024 elections,” Price mentioned, as per the assertion.

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“Releasing an electoral calendar, reinstating candidates, and returning control of political parties to rightful leaders, updating the electoral registry, and allowing for international electoral observation missions are all crucial elements of this negotiation,” the assertion quoted Price as saying.

Price additional mentioned that the US proceed to name on the implementation of the suggestions of the 2021 European Union Electoral Observation Mission to Venezuela, aimed toward enhancing future electoral processes according to worldwide commitments on democratic elections.

The US will work with a broad vary of Venezuelan and worldwide companions to make use of all acceptable diplomatic and financial instruments to press for the discharge of all these unjustly detained for political causes, the independence of political events, respect for freedom of expression and different common human rights, and an finish to human rights abuses, he added.

“We will engage with other members of the international community to foster conditions conducive to the conduct of free and fair elections in Venezuela, and to support the objectives of the negotiations in Mexico,” Price mentioned.

“The United States also supports efforts to alleviate the suffering of the Venezuelan people and bring the humanitarian crises in Venezuela to an end through international cooperation. Since 2017, the United States has provided more than USD 2.3 billion in humanitarian assistance both inside Venezuela and to Venezuelans forced to flee throughout the region,” he added.

The Maduro regime’s sample of political repression and rampant human rights abuses, in addition to extreme restrictions on political and civil society actors and freedom of expression, have robbed the Venezuelan folks of democratic self-determination. The US help the efforts of the Unitary Platform and different actors to ascertain democratic order and rule of legislation in Venezuela. (ANI)

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