Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro has said that all of the negotiations between Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and Colombia's two largest rebe lgroups had the Colombian government's authorization, a newspaper reported Sunday.
All contacts were solicited and authorized by Andres Pastrana, who led Colombia from 1998 to 2002, or Alvaro Uribe, president of Colombia since 2002, Maduro told the El Pais newspaper in the Colombian city of Cali.
Maduro said this year's release of six captives who had been held by Colombia's largest rebel group -- the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) -- was thanks to Chavez's mediation.
Allegations that FARC was financially supported by the Venezuelan government were baseless, he said, adding that Colombia's media campaign against Chavez and his Ecuadorian counterpart, Rafael Correa, must end as soon as possible.
Venezuela, by contrast, has turned the page on confrontation with Colombia, he said.
Source:Xinhua
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