Bolivia confirms its accession to the Lima Group

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Bolivia's Foreign Minister Karen Longaric. Credit: AIZAR RALDES / AFP via Getty Images

(CNN Spanish) - Bolivia is already a member of the Lima Group, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of that country confirmed in a brief statement dated Sunday, December 22.

"Thus Bolivia will contribute to achieving a peaceful, democratic and constitutional solution to the crisis in Venezuela, which must be guided by the Venezuelan people," the message said.

For his part, Foreign Minister of Peru Gustavo Meza-Cuadra, coordinator of the Lima Group, said in a statement on behalf of the states that comprise it, and addressed to Bolivian Foreign Minister Karen Longaric Rodríguez, “the satisfaction of incorporating to Bolivia in the work of the Group, which aims to contribute a peaceful, democratic and constitutional solution to the crisis in Venezuela ”.

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The Peruvian Foreign Minister's statement adds that this peaceful exit must be "conducted by Venezuelans themselves, through free, fair and transparent presidential elections."

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