“We are ready to take steps, if there are steps on their part, this should be action in response to action,” TASS quoted him as saying.
According to Sullivan, the first such step could be to reach a series of agreements with the opposition, which would be evidence of the good faith of Caracas.
According to Reuters, the US State Department previously agreed to the resumption of oil supplies by the Italian company Eni and the Spanish Repsol from Venezuela to Europe amid restrictions on Russian oil.
At the same time, the United States stipulated that "oil must go to Europe, it cannot be resold somewhere else."