Kerry meets Venezuelan FM in Guatemala: AFP

The Daily Star – AFP, June 05, 2013

Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias
 Jose Jaua shake hands as they pose for a photo during a meeting of the
43rd General Assembly of the Organization of American States, OAS,
in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala, Wednesday, June 5, 2013 (AP Photo/M)

                              

Antigua, Guatemala: US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday met his Venezuelan counterpart Elias Jaua on the sidelines of the Organization of American States meeting here, an AFP reporter witnessed.

"We haven't done this in a while," Kerry told Jaua as the pair shook hands and smiled for the cameras at the start of the talks, which are significant given the testy ties between Washington and Caracas.

After hearing the translation, Jaua replied: "It's good that we can do this."

Washington has yet to acknowledge the victory of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro -- the hand-picked successor of the late leftist icon Hugo Chavez -- in the mid-April presidential election.

Maduro won the controversial vote by a razor-thin margin in an election that his rival, centrist Henrique Capriles, has refused to concede.

The United States and Venezuela have not exchanged ambassadors since they were mutually withdrawn in 2010.

Venezuela requested the meeting, a US official said Tuesday.

Maduro confirmed the meeting late Tuesday.

"There will be a meeting, we could say an interesting one, between Elias Jaua ... and John Kerry," said Maduro, speaking at a public event in Caracas.

The meeting will give Jaua a chance to "directly inform the government of President (Barack) Obama of the view that the government of Venezuela has regarding how relations between our two governments should be."

Maduro said that the "differences" between the two nations can be "processed," but "there must be respect in the relations."

Kerry is making his first trip as top diplomat to Latin America for the OAS general assembly meeting, expected to focus on drugs and security.

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