Spain "supports" Colombia in the regularization of almost a million Venezuelan migrants

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The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha González Laya, began her official visit to Colombia on Friday expressing her support for the amnesty offered by that country to about a million Venezuelan irregular migrants.

"It is a noble gesture, it is a generous gesture, it is a gesture that the government of Spain (...) wants to support," González Laya told the media after a meeting in Bogotá with his counterpart,

.

The head of Colombian diplomacy thanked Spain for the

to serve Venezuelan migrants in the country, which in 2020 registered its worst economic performance in half a century.

At the beginning of February, President

announced the creation of a "temporary protection statute" that grants a period of ten years for undocumented Venezuelans to process a residence visa in Colombia. The United Nations estimates that

, half of them irregularly.

"Other countries close the doors (and) erect walls, Colombia has chosen to host," celebrated González Laya, who tomorrow will visit the city of

(northeast), on the border with Venezuela.

The oil country is involved in diplomatic tensions with Spain and the rest of the European Union, which does not recognize the result of the parliamentary elections last December.

The government of

recently expelled the EU ambassador to Venezuela in retaliation for new sanctions against 19 Venezuelan officials accused of undermining democracy.

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