The Venezuelan government plans to ratify a petition for extradition from the United States of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, reported Wednesday People's Power Minister of Foreign Affairs Nicolás Maduro.

The senior official made the remarks during a press conference together with his Cuban counterpart Felipe Pérez Roque at the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry, official news agency ABN quoted.

"Venezuela will make again before an international body a petition for extradition of renowned international terrorist Posada Carriles," he commented.

Last Tuesday, Judge Kathleen Cardone, of El Paso, Texas, dismissed a case against the anti-Castro activist, releasing and holding him harmless from any charges.