“The UK continues to recognize the Venezuelan National Assembly, elected in 2015, and its chairman as interim president, as parliamentary elections in December were not free.
We call on all Venezuelan leaders to support the restoration of democracy, ”he wrote on Twitter.
Earlier, the official representative of the EU's foreign policy service Peter Stano said that the EU intends to continue supporting the leader of the Venezuelan opposition Juan Guaido and does not recognize the results of the parliamentary elections in the country.
At the same time, the Russian Foreign Ministry noted that Moscow is ready for close cooperation with the new composition of the Venezuelan National Assembly, which has taken up its duties.
As a result of the December 6 elections to the National Assembly of Venezuela, the pro-presidential United Socialist Party and allied parties won 91% of the seats in parliament.