OAS fails to approve two declarations on Venezuelan crisis

The Organization of American States failed on Monday to approve either of the two declarations on the crisis in Venezuela presented at the Cancun, Mexico, meeting of member states' foreign ministers, with neither receiving the required 23 votes.


The proposal negotiated by a broad group of countries asking Caracas to reconsider convening a Constitutional National Assembly to rewrite the Venezuelan Constitution failed, obtaining 20 votes in favor, five opposed, eight abstentions and one country absent - Venezuela itself.
 EFE/EPA
20/6/17