Message from Venezuela to the world and to the United States

Venezuela reaffirms its vocation for peace and peaceful coexistence. Our country aspires to live without external threats, in an environment of respect and international cooperation. We believe that global peace is built by first guaranteeing the peace of each nation.

We consider it a priority to move forward toward a balanced and respectful international relationship between the United States and Venezuela, and between Venezuela and the countries of the region, based on sovereign equality and non-interference. These principles guide our diplomacy with the rest of the countries of the world.

We extend an invitation to the government of the United States to work jointly on an agenda of cooperation, oriented toward shared development, within the framework of international legality, and to strengthen lasting community coexistence.

President Donald Trump: our peoples and our region deserve peace and dialogue, not war. This has always been the stance of President Nicolás Maduro and is that of all of Venezuela at this moment. This is the Venezuela I believe in, to which I have dedicated my life. My dream is that Venezuela be a great power where all good Venezuelan men and women come together.

Venezuela has the right to peace, to development, to its sovereignty, and to its future.

Delcy Rodríguez, Acting President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela