Chairman said that accuse him of everything evil to receive new ambassadors

February 11, 2008, 08:45 PM ET

Caracas, February 11 (EFE) .- The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, expressed regret today that charged "around" evil such as terrorism and drug trafficking, upon receiving the credentials of new ambassadors from Canada, China, Ecuador , Spain, Greece, Japan, Mexico, Poland and Switzerland.

"We brought everything they accuse us all, we are destabilizing the continent, financing election campaigns, exporting revolutions, we are paradise for drug trafficking to terrorism and not as many things," said in a brief speech welcome these nine ambassadors.

"None of that is true," he added, although not appointed to the United States, whose government maintains an ongoing verbal dispute, exclaimed that "enough is enough of both colonialism, imperialism therefore, that the strongest attempt to continue treading more weak. "

"We want internal peace among our peoples and between nations, but we are accused of promoting war, Venezuela is in the sights of a series of very powerful interests," he added, attributing it to his decision to "rebuild" his country, which was, he said, "plagued by many pests and for a long time." 

Through the new Spanish ambassador, Damaso of Lario Ramirez "salute to King Juan Carlos, said the president in reference to Spain, without mentioning the incident at the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile.

"All we demand respect and equal respect for us," he added and claimed among others the right of countries to manage their "own natural resources."

The new ambassador to Japan, Shuji Shimokoji, he noted previously, Chavez revealed that "for the first time a shipment of Venezuelan oil came out recently that an Asian nation, but did not provide further details.

In China, he said addressing the new representative of that country, Zhang Tuo, Venezuela is currently exporting half a million barrels a day "and we heading million, because we want to share our oil reserves also with them," he said.

Speaking specifically Armin Ritz new ambassador to Switzerland, which together with Spain and France pursues a diplomatic work for peace in Colombia, Chavez noted that it will continue "working to secure the release of all abducted" by guerrilla groups of the neighbouring nation.

This, despite the fact that at the end of 2007 was dismissed as a mediator for a "humanitarian exchange" for his Colombian colleague, Alvaro Uribe, who then accused him of wanting to export to Colombia what Chavez called "Bolivarian revolution towards socialism of the twenty-first century" .

Accusations of the same tenor has received, among others, of personalities from Mexico, a country now will be represented in Caracas by Jesus Marío Chacon.

The other ambassadors to which Chavez was today presented his credentials are Efstathios Daras, Greece; Perry Calderwood, Canada; Krzysztof Jacek Hinz, Poland, and Rene Vargas, Ecuador. EFE