“Secretary Blinken stressed the need to return democracy to Venezuela through free and fair elections,” the text says.
It is noted that the United States, together with its allies, will exert multilateral pressure to achieve a "peaceful and democratic transfer of power."
In January, the spokesman for the EU's foreign policy service Peter Stano said that the EU intends to continue supporting 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 the allied parties won 91% of the seats in parliament.