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Venezuela hopes to improve
relations with Peru
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
said on Saturday that he was
willing to "forget" the
unhappiness with Peruvian
President-elect Alan Garcia and
to improve relations with the
country.
Speaking at a construction
inauguration ceremony for a
Venezuela-Colombia gas pipeline
in the western state of Zulia,
Chavez also said his country
hopes to strengthen friendly
ties between the peoples of
Venezuela and Peru.
On Thursday, Garcia said in
Ecuador's capital Quito that the
new Peruvian government would
make efforts to normalize
relations with Venezuela.
"I think it is a good gesture by
the president (elect) Garcia
that I respond to in the same
tone," Chavez said. "I am
willing to make efforts to
forget the things that happened
during the electoral campaign in
Peru."
Chavez and Garcia had been
involved in a war of words since
April. The Venezuelan president
frequently criticized Garcia,
Peru's then presidential
candidate, and expressed his
public support for Garcia's
rival, nationalist candidate
Ollanta Humala.
The spat came to a head when the
two countries recalled their
respective ambassadors in April
and May.
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