The Venezuelan government and opposition have sent envoys to Norway to attend talks on ways of ending the South American country's crisis.
It was also a policy reversal for the opposition, which has accused President Nicolás Maduro of using previous negotiations to play for time.
Venezuelan Bolivarian National guards officers form a cordon around the National Assembly building as the opposition-controlled congress met to discuss a move that could provide political cover for greater international involvement in the nation's crisis, in Caracas, Venezuela, on May 7, 2019.Maduro did not directly comment on the talks during televised remarks, but he said Rodríguez was on a"very important" mission outside Venezuela.
The Norway dialogue comes as a mostly European group of nations prepares to send a high-level delegation to Venezuela to propose solutions to the country's protracted crisis. The International Contact Group consists of eight European countries, the European Union and four Latin American countries. Also Wednesday, the United States suspended all commercial passenger and cargo flights between the U.S. and Venezuela, saying the political unrest and tensions there pose a risk to flights.
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