Panama and Venezuela to restore consular services in each other's countries

Panama and Venezuela volition reconstruct consular services successful each other's countries successful the coming days astir a twelvemonth aft Panama suspended them pursuing questionable Venezuelan elections that reelected President Nicolás Maduro

PANAMA CITY -- Panama and Venezuela volition reconstruct consular services successful each other's countries successful the coming days, Panama’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said precocious Thursday, astir a twelvemonth aft Panama suspended them pursuing questionable Venezuelan elections that reelected President Nicolás Maduro.

“Due to the imperative request to be to the consular issues of their citizens,” the 2 countries agreed to reactivate their consular services, the ministry said successful a statement.

The diplomatic interruption came July 29, 2024, erstwhile Panama pulled its diplomats from Caracas and announced it was suspending relations with Venezuela. It followed elections the time earlier successful which the absorption declared fraud and offered grounds that Maduro had been roundly defeated.

Panama President José Raúl Mulino gave his enactment to the Venezuelan absorption campaigner Edmundo González Urrutia, who had visited Panama weeks earlier.

Venezuela suspended flights betwixt some countries, including those by Panamanian nationalist bearer Copa Airlines. Flights were reestablished May 22 this year.

Panama had besides insisted that Venezuela hold to person migrants from its state moving southbound done Panama, but determination was nary notation of that contented successful Thursday’s statement.

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