In her speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez said Caracas wanted to reset relations with Washington. Rodriguez said Venezuela also aimed to establish cooperative ties with the United States’ neighboring countries and other nations in the international community.
Declaring that Venezuela had been reborn, Rodriguez thanked U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration for returning to the path of diplomatic relations with the country.
Rodriguez also addressed the bilateral agreement recently signed between Caracas and Washington, describing it as one of the most comprehensive agreements signed to date. She argued that the agreement would contribute to the energy balance in the Western Hemisphere and the global economy.
A new era after tensions with Washington
Relations between the United States and Venezuela intensified again after years of tensions and Washington’s sanctions against Caracas. Washington suspended the operations of its embassy in Caracas in 2019 and imposed sanctions on the Venezuelan government and the state oil company PDVSA.
Rodriguez said Venezuela had faced two major and painful challenges in 2026, describing one as the “suffocation” of the country’s domestic political life and the other as the escalating confrontation with the United States.
Rodriguez also said that the two earthquakes that shook the country on June 24 had posed a significant challenge for Venezuela.
Call for negotiations with Guyana
Venezuela’s interim president also raised the territorial dispute with neighboring Guyana. Reiterating Caracas’s “historic rights” over Guayana Esequiba, Rodriguez called for the dispute to be resolved and for negotiations to resume within the framework of the Geneva Agreement.
Rodriguez said the agreements that remain in force the longest are reached through bilateral negotiations between the parties, not by external organizations.
