Venezuelan minister of the Interior and Justice Jesse Chacón Monday launched in Bogotá a number of meetings with officials of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's government with a view to ponder security mechanisms over their common border, AFP reported.
 
Chacón is scheduled to meet with Colombian vice-minister of the Interior, Hernando Angarita, and with the director of Colombian secret police (DAS) Andrés Peñate.

Chacón's visit to Colombian capital city was agreed upon last December 23rd in Caracas, when he met with Peñate. Their first meeting came following a series of bilateral impasses related to mutual claims of spying and plots to kill President Hugo Chávez.

Chacón and Peñate are to review the work of the taskforces comprising Venezuelan and Colombian security officers that were created to favor the exchange of information to reduce crime in border towns.

The major topics Chacón and Peñate are to address Monday include drug traffic, car robbery, and others.

The latest Colombia-Venezuela impasse came after President Chávez claimed that DAS was "fabricating plots" against his government and acted together with the Colombian Armed Forces as an autonomous body independent from Colombian Presidency.