Foreign Minister Arreaza: We have not received a flight request from Uruguay - MPPRE

Foreign Minister Arreaza: We have not received a flight request from Uruguay

The People’s Power Minister for Foreign Relations, Jorge Arreaza, dismissed the recent statements of the Uruguayan Foreign Minister, Ernesto Talvi, according to which “no country has been able to send a humanitarian flight” to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to repatriate its nationals who require it in the context of expansion of the Covid-19. On the contrary, he affirmed that this type of flight has been made from Venezuela without any difficulty and with all the sanitary guarantees; and also asserted that the Venezuelan State has not received any flight request from the Eastern Republic of Uruguay. “I prefer to believe that you are very misinformed. Several countries have sent flights to Venezuela to repatriate their nationals”, said Foreign Minister Arreaza through his Twitter account @jaarreaza.
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In fact, this Thursday a special flight launched by the state airline Conviasa took off boarding 154 foreign citizens, including Americans, who were in a dire situation in the Latin American country due to the limitations derived from the pandemic. The journey, although it was not direct to the US but to the Mexican city of Toluca that would serve as a connection, made possible the return of these citizens to their countries of origin.