Summary: December 23, 2002: Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the internal situation in Venezuela (Brussels)
The European Union continues to follow with increasing attention and concern the developments of the internal situation in Venezuela.
The European Union welcomes the adoption by the Permanent Council of the OAS resolution 833 in support for the democratic institutional structures in Venezuela and the facilitation efforts of the OAS Secretary General.
In this connection the European Union expresses its strong support to the efforts of the Secretary General of the OAS to build the conditions for dialogue and national reconciliation.
The European Union urges the institutions and people of Venezuela to seek a peaceful and constitutional solution to the crisis in order to allow the country to re-establish a stable internal situation that may lead to a process of economic progress and social development, in a framework of full respect of democratic principles and rules of law.
The Central and Eastern European countries associated with the European Union, the associated countries Cyprus, Malta and Turkey, and the EFTA countries, members of the European Economic Area align themselves with this declaration.
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