The Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Carlos Faría, on Thursday called on the European Union to lift sanctions against Venezuela, and expressed his country’s willingness to help the European Union to cushion the energy crisis facing the continent.
During his speech at the meeting of foreign ministers of the EU and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States and the European Union (CELAC-EU) that is taking place these days in Buenos Aires, Faría urged the Union to decide not to extend its unilateral sanctions against Venezuela, according to a press release from the Venezuelan diplomacy.
«We have resources sequestered, stolen, dammed in banking institutions of the member countries of the European Union. We have gold sequestered by a bank in Europe, the Bank of England. We could not buy vaccines when we needed them the most and here we are talking about the right to life, respect for life. This needs to be reconsidered, dear foreign ministers», he urged.
However, the Venezuelan diplomat has expressed the willingness of the country to help Brussels in the face of the crisis threatening the old continent, providing gas and hydrocarbons, ratifying the offers made on repeated occasions by the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro.
«You know that two important European energy companies operate in our country and we are waiting for those who dictate the coercive measures to grant them permission so that the sale of hydrocarbons can take place», said Faría.
«We have neither seized nor stolen any of their assets in our country, on the contrary, they are well protected and ready to continue operating», he added, according to the letter from the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry.
Faría took advantage of his speech to call on the European countries to condemn the oil blockade and join forces to resume the «healthy commercial exercise that has always existed» between the Venezuelan oil industry and the European oil companies. «We are ready to re-establish a new relationship», he said.
