The two diplomats reportedly had two meetings recently, despite US President Trump’s hostile rhetoric and a round of sanctions imposed on Venezuela’s national oil company.
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has said in an interview that his foreign minister Jorge Arreaza secretly met with the US special envoy to Venezuela, despite Donald Trump’s public calls for Maduro to step down.
According to the Venezuelan president, Arreaza was in New York recently, where he invited US Envoy Elliott Abrams to come to Venezuela “privately, publicly or secretly”. He said the two officials had two meetings that lasted for several hours.
His revelations have been confirmed by two Venezuelan sources not authorised to discuss the matter, an AP report reads. The sources disclosed that the first meeting took place on 26 January, and the second happened on 11 February. Both meetings happened at the request of the US, the sources said.