CARACAS, April 10 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday night that he had reached an agreement with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on the delivery of humanitarian aid supplies within the framework of respect for the national sovereignty of his country.
Maduro said he had a meeting with Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC and Sophie Orr, the ICRC's regional director for the Americas on Tuesday night at Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas.
"We reached an agreement on working jointly with the bodies of the United Nations to bring to Venezuela all kinds of aid, all aid of a humanitarian nature that it can bring, respecting the sovereignty of our country," said Maduro.
Maduro emphasized that aid to his country would be welcomed "without any kind of politicization or misinterpretation, and fulfill the extreme and maximum security protocols that the international system contemplates when humanitarian aid is sent."
He also said that the Venezuelan government was negotiating a formal document where parameters would be established for the ICRC to be "the governing mechanism of all the agencies that want to come with support, solidarity, or humanitarian aid in different fields for our country."
