“We welcome this opportunity to strengthen relations and mutual understanding between countries. As a first step, the US expects the ambassador to La Paz to be sent to continue negotiations, ”Hale said.

Earlier, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed in Bogota with Bolivian Foreign Minister Karen Longarik the upcoming elections in the country.

In November 2019, it was reported that the new authorities of Bolivia, their ambassador to the United States, were Walter Oscar Serrate Cuellar.