In addition to calls from Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez for a ‘de-escalation’ and ‘responsibility’ following the United States’ air strikes on Venezuela and the capture of Nicolas Maduro, Spain’s Foreign Ministry has also offered to mediate for a ‘peaceful solution’ to the crisis.
In a short statement issued on Saturday morning, Spain called for ‘de-escalation and moderation’, urging respect for international law and the principles of the United Nations Charter.
‘Spain is willing to offer its good offices to help achieve a peaceful and negotiated solution to the current crisis,’ the statement said, while also noting that all Spanish personnel in Caracas are safe and that the Spanish government has not recognised the results of Venezuela’s 28 July 2024 elections.
Those elections were officially won by Maduro but contested by the opposition, whose candidate Edmundo González Urrutia fled Venezuela for Madrid after the vote.
The foreign ministry also recalled that Spain has welcomed – ‘and will continue to welcome’ – ‘tens of thousands of Venezuelans who have been forced to leave their country for political reasons’, and reiterated its willingness to help in the search ‘for a democratic, negotiated and peaceful solution’ for Venezuela.
In Venezuela’s 2024 elections, Maduro was declared the winner by the National Electoral Council which did not publish the exact tally from polling stations, citing a cyberattack.
The Venezuelan opposition denounced electoral fraud targeting its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, who had stepped in at the last minute to replace opposition leader Maria Corina Machado after she was ruled ineligible.
A few weeks later, he fled Venezuela aboard a Spanish military plane and was granted asylum.
Machado, who recently received the Nobel Peace Prize and managed to go and meet him in Stockholm under dramatic circumstances, has been living in hiding in Venezuela since the vote.
A large part of the international community does not recognise the result of the presidential election that allowed Maduro to embark on a third consecutive six-year term.
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