Borrell Says US Supports EU Observer Mission to Venezuela

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The United States supports the controversial dispatch of a European Union mission to Venezuela to supervise the elections that take place next month in that country. This was implied by the High Representative for Foreign Affairs of the European Union, Josep Borrell, during his visit to Washington, which ends this Friday. "If the United States were against it, it would have said so. Officially, it has not said anything.

said Borrell in a meeting with journalists. The US State Department had not responded to a request for information from EL MUNDO regarding whether this is the US position.

The head of EU foreign policy described the US's "less committed" attitude as "natural", but insisted that what marks Washington's policy in relation to the transition to democracy in Venezuela is a phrase from the joint statement. that the State Department issued on Thursday, after Borrell met with the head of US diplomacy,

saying that the two

in that country.

Borrell justified Brussels' decision to send the observers despite not doing so in last year's elections by claiming that Nicolás Maduro's regime has met all the necessary requirements, which he listed one by one: "If the opposition presents itself; if the [EU] exploratory mission says that it has perceived a widespread desire on the part of civil society and the people for an electoral observation mission in Europe if there are elections; if we have succeeded in getting the Venezuelan government accept all the conditions that we put on you; if we have verified that there has been an effective presentation of the opposition that has meant that there have been no difficulties for those who wish to count in the elections. " Of course: the head of EU diplomacy insisted that "I already know that the elections in Venezuela are not like in Switzerland. The Venezuelan regime is what it is; we all know that ".

Borrell has been in Washington for three days, on his first visit to the US as EU High Representative since Joe Biden took office as president in January.

In addition to Blinken, he has met with Undersecretary of Defense,

to whom he conveyed the idea that closer European military cooperation will not create a force that will compete with

"It is about creating a complementary military capacity of the Atlantic Alliance", insisted Borrell, who stressed that "the best organization for the territorial defense of Europe is NATO."

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