On Staurday, Norway announced that representatives of the government of Nicolás Maduro and the Venezuelan opposition will return to Oslo next week, within the framework of the mediation initiated by the Scandinavian kingdom with a view to solving the political crisis in Venezuela.
Norway praises the parties for their efforts and appreciates their willingness,”
said the head of the Norwegian diplomacy, Ine Eriksen Søreide, quoted in the statement.
When the country faces the worst socio-economic crisis in its recent history, the Venezuelan government of Nicolás Maduro and the opposition led by Juan Guaidó accepted mediation from Norway and delegates have been to Oslo at least once in May.
But Juan Guaidó denies that they are negotiating or that the delegates from both sides have talked, for fear of dividing his followers, hostile to any dialogue with the government.
Norway doesn’t talk about dialogue or negotiations and it does not give any details about what it calls “preliminary contacts”.
For Juan Guaidó and his supporters, Maduro is a dictator, a usurper who remains in power after the fraudulent presidential election last year.
Maduro, on the other hand, qualifies his opponents as “golpistas” supported by the United States.
The host country of the Nobel Peace Prize and where the Palestinian agreements of Oslo were negotiated, Norway, has a long tradition of “facilitator” in peace processes, such as the one between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2016.