Venezuela, Colombia ready to resume agenda
Álvaro Uribe's chief aide and ideologist José Obdulio
Gaviria thinks that Colombia and Venezuela relations "are very
good" and that both countries are ready to "enthusiastically
resume their bilateral agenda."
Gaviria, who is also a lawyer, said in an interview with Brazilian
newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, "(The relations between both countries)
are very good and that is the way they must be. We share a 2,200
kilometers frontier, a living frontier, with people who need
a lot of cooperation."
"We lost a lot of time with the fight against terrorism. It
is time to restart enthusiastically the bilateral agenda," the
aide of the Colombian government added. According to reliable
figures, 17 percent of Colombian exports are bought by Venezuela.
Gaviria is sure that Colombia and Venezuela governments are
willing to forget diplomatic frictions that endangered bilateral
relations in March, following a Colombian military raid in
Ecuador where 21 rebels from the Colombian Revolutionary Armed
Forces (FARC), including guerrilla leader Raúl Reyes,
were killed.
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