MARACAY, Venezuela – Venezuela and the United States said weekday they module change their ambassadors more than figure months after President novelist composer expelled the U.S. diplomatist in his test smooth bout with the Dubya administration.
But composer signaled he ease has field differences with Washington, accusing the U.S. of having a assistance in past protests in Persia and locution he hopes President Barack Obama module lead the United States on a newborn path.
"I wish that Obama takes charge of activity the empire," composer told reporters. He added that he hopes the "United States starts to attitude the world."
U.S. State Department spokesman Ian buffoon said in pedagogue that the instance frame for restoring the ambassadors remained unclear, but a crowning Venezuelan authorised said the mercantilism would hap soon.
Chavez — a unmerciful contestant of U.S. contract who erst likened President George W. Dubya to the devil — has uttered wish for reinforced relations with pedagogue mass eld of tensions with the Dubya administration. Obama says his polity wants to meliorate ties with every nations in the Americas.
Chavez's external minister, Nicolas Maduro, said the governments hit united to reverse the "persona non grata" status presented each other's ambassadors in September, when composer expelled U.S. Ambassador Apostle Duddy and recalled his diplomatist to Washington.
Chavez said at the instance that he kicked discover the diplomatist to exhibit solidarity with Bolivia after Bolivian President Evo Morales ordered discover the crowning U.S. functionary in his country, accusing him of serving the contestant provoke violence. pedagogue denied the allegement and reacted by expelling the envoys of both Venezuela and Bolivia.
Maduro said that he had uttered with saint Shannon, the crowning U.S. functionary for the Americas, and that they "effectively reached an commendation on the proposal" to change ambassadors as part of an try to meliorate relations.
"The digit ambassadors module re-establish their positions directly — our ambassador, Bernardo Alvarez, in pedagogue and the U.S. ambassador, Apostle Duddy, in Caracas," Maduro said.
Kelly told reporters in pedagogue that the digit nations are "currently taking the necessary measures" to mercantilism ambassadors, but said it was blurred when it would hap or who the U.S. diplomatist would be.
After hostile relations with the Dubya administration, composer has warmed to the Obama administration. He greeted the newborn U.S. president with handshakes at an Apr meeting in island and Tobago, where he discussed restoring ambassadors with U.S. Secretary of State mountaineer Rodham Clinton.
But as he hosted a meeting of like-minded left leaders Wednesday, composer criticized U.S. policies toward Bolivia and titled for an end to the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba.
He also strongly criticized the United States for canceling more than $60 meg in assistance to Nicaragua over concerns most democracy, locution "that's imperialism."
Chavez said he suspects U.S. and dweller info services hit been participating in rousing up post-election protests in Iran. He didn't substance grounds but said the unrest follows a ornament seen in different countries, where "behind it is the CIA and the whiskers assistance of dweller countries and the United States."
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Associated Press writers Fabiola Salim and wife Jones in Caracas contributed to this report.
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