{"id":43911,"date":"2010-08-11T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/11\/colombia-venezuela-agree-to-restore-diplomatic-relations-after-dispute\/"},"modified":"2010-08-11T01:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T01:46:00","slug":"colombia-venezuela-agree-to-restore-diplomatic-relations-after-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/11\/colombia-venezuela-agree-to-restore-diplomatic-relations-after-dispute.html","title":{"rendered":"Colombia, Venezuela Agree to Restore Diplomatic Relations After Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU; font-size: 10.5pt\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 32.4px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal Arial\">Venezuela and Colombia agreed to restore diplomatic relations and vowed to step up security along their border to prevent Marxist guerrillas and drug traffickers from mounting attacks or using dense jungle for hideouts, reports Bloomberg.com.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 22.8px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal Arial\">The two countries will form joint committees to work on any lingering issues, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said yesterday after meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart. Hugo Chavez. The nations had been locked in a dispute over Colombian accusations that Venezuela was harboring rebels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 22.8px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal Arial\">\u201cWe are starting this relationship from zero in a frank and sincere way,\u201d Santos, who was inaugurated as president Aug. 7, told reporters in a joint news conference with Chavez in the town of Santa Marta, on Colombia\u2019s Caribbean coast. \u201cWe have decided that the two countries will re-establish diplomatic relations and create a roadmap so that all aspects of relations can progress, advance and deepen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 22.8px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal Arial\">The agreement paves the way for a restoration in trade between the countries, which plummeted during the past two years amid accusations that Chavez was aiding the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in its campaign to disrupt the government. Chavez put troops on high alert along the 1,375-mile (2,200- kilometer) border July 30 after Santos\u2019 predecessor, Alvaro Uribe, said as many as 1,500 rebels are launching cross-border attacks from Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela and Colombia agreed to restore diplomatic relations and vowed to step up security along their border to prevent&#8230;<br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[640,13931,13932,13933,13705],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}