Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and the Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos met on Tuesday to discuss yesterday for an interview to the simmering conflict for years between the two countries and especially since 22 July aborted relations resume.
Contrary to initial reports met the two leaders not in Bogotá, but in Santa Marta, the village in northern Colombia, died in 1830, the freedom fighter Simón Bolívar. After Chávez and Santos at the memorial of Bolívar’s thought, which began nearly four-hour talks.
The agreement includes the use of five commissions on economic and social issues, and a commission on security. Colombia had 22 July pictures, documents and videos presented, should the presence of 1,500 guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC on Venezuelan territory to prove. Chavez claimed the other hand, now also in personal conversation with Santos that the emitted Venezuelan patrol had found no camp of the FARC in the border area with Colombia. He also confirmed that his government “neither guerrillas, drug traffickers or even terrorists supported on Venezuelan territory, allowed or will allow.” Another reason for the discord between Caracas and Bogotá, Colombia was the agreement with the U.S. over the stationing of U.S. troops on Colombian territory. Chávez said it now that Colombia is a sovereign state and can take any form of agreement.
The process of rapprochement of the two states will be accompanied by the Union of South American Nations UNASUR under the Argentine Secretary Néstor Kirchner, who also had previously been instrumental in mediating in this conflict.
The mutual visits of ambassadors was also agreed upon, such as maintaining a direct and open dialogue between the heads of state.
A sensitive issue was omitted, namely the action, which was reintroduced by Álvaro Uribe of Colombia against Chávez in the International Court in The Hague.