6-10-08, 5:35 pm

Caracas, Jun 10 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro reiterated Tuesday a call for Colombian guerrillas to free detainees to open possibilities of a peace process in that country.

Interviewed by the TV program En Contacto, Maduro emphasized that with this exhortation President Hugo Chavez has reaffirmed the historical position of the Venezuelan government in favor of the peace process in its neighboring nation.

Chavez urged Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) to unilaterally release all detainees to contribute to peace talks.

We have only had one position in the Colombian armed conflict which has historically been directed to seeking peace, despite the world misinformation machinery to distort that position, noted Maduro.

Facing our correct position with the Colombian armed conflict the international right-wing sectors and certain ultra leftist sectors have tried to promote a misinformation crusade against Venezuela, he remarked.

'The guerrilla is a Colombian phenomenon,' added the minister, 'and the State and the different sectors of the society in that country must seek for solutions to that conflict.'

We have other political conditions in Latin America today, another historical era has been opened in the region, new spaces of democratic transformation, stressed the Foreign Affairs Minister.

It is necessary to make the armed conflict more humane in that country on the basis of international humanitarian law, added Maduro.

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