The Venezuelan government and opposition sit at the dialogue table

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The Venezuelan government and opposition sit at the dialogue table

However, Leopoldo Lopez opposition party, Po[CENSORED]r Will not participate in conservations.

The president of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro gives hand to opposition spokesman Jesus Torrealba

The Government of Venezuela and its main opponents began today finally in Caracas a dialogue to try to resolve the crisis in the oil-producing country, with no party opposition Leopoldo Lopez, Will Po[CENSORED]r (VP), which until the last minute put on hold conversations.
The table for dialogue was established, in the presence of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, between a delegation of his government and five representatives of the Bureau antichavista Alliance of Democratic Unity (MUD), accompanied by the mediators of the Union of South American Nations ( Unasur) and the Vatican.
Nicolas Maduro, who reached out to his opponents, expressed his "absolute commitment" to this process of dialogue to try to ease the crisis. He also said that dialogue comes ready "to listen, and hopefully to be heard".
For its part, the Italian prelate Claudio Maria Celli, Vatican representative to mediate between the government and opposition parties asked that dialogue is serious. After ensuring that the pope Francisco is "deeply concerned" about the tension in Venezuela, Celli acknowledged that it is not "against a simple task," but said he "hopes" that this process will continue and may agree "a method of he worked and stages of the dialogue. "
In the hours before the meeting, the major parties of the opposition alliance Democratic -Action (AD), Primero Justicia (PJ), Will Po[CENSORED]r (VP) and Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT) - had serious differences over the terms in which this meeting should be accepted, indicated to Efe sources of the coalition.
Po[CENSORED]r Will, the party founded by the prisoner opposition Leopoldo López, refused to attend talks not to see fulfilled a number of requirements that had done prior to the appointment and that included the release of 13 political prisoners.
Meanwhile, if attended by the executive secretary of the MUD, Jesus Torrealba; the representative of UNT, Timoteo Zambrano; the PJ, Carlos Ocariz; the AD, Luis Aquiles Moreno, and the governor of Lara, the opposition and former Chavista Henri Falcon.