A scheduled meeting between Juan Manuel Santos and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was postponed Tuesday amid a very busy week of diplomacy for the socialist president, reports Terra.
The meeting planned for Friday October has been rescheduled for next week, according to Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin, who said that Chavez was “outside Venezuela for a few days.”
On Monday Santos confirmed the meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart, as a follow-up to a visit by Chavez to Santa Marta in August, when relations between the neighboring nations were normalized following a period of friction during Alvaro Uribe’s presidency.
Reviewing joint development projects and security will be on the agenda, as well as a new trade agreement set to be signed in April 2011 which will be negotiated in further detail during talks in Caracas from November 8 to 12.