The Basque Parliament Friday rejected condemning Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez' decision not to renew the broadcast license for private television channel RCTV.

Rather, the Parliament endorsed a resolution reasserting its "unequivocal stance to advocate freedom of opinion and expression," Efe reported.

The resolution urged countries to give "legal equal treatment to all news media, both state-run and private, regardless of any political, ideological or linguistic consideration."

Further, the Basque Parliament championed "dialogue between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the news media, to achieve effective values of freedom and democracy and people's right to truthful information, so that the latter is not undermined by political or economic interests."