Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Tuesday proposed holding a meeting with his Colombian, Ecuadorian, and Nicaraguan counterparts Álvaro Uribe, Rafael Correa, and Daniel Ortega, respectively, to end a diplomatic crisis among the four countries.

He added he agreed to meet with Uribe soon and had suggested the Colombian ruler to invite Ortega, AFP reported.

"I asked Ortega whether he was willing to attend the meeting, and he said yes. Uribe agreed too. Correa may attend the meeting as well. We could lock ourselves down, but without computers," Chávez told foreign reporters.

He stressed he was appointing a new Ambassador to Colombia soon, after he recalled Pável Rondón last November.

Next week in Caracas, Chávez is meeting with the members of the Committees for Peace of the Colombian Senate and Chamber of Representatives, said Gloria Inés Ramírez, the head of the Colombian Senate's Committee for Peace, Venezuelan official news agency ABN reported.