CD representatives to Chile to report on alleged agreement violations

<a href=www.vheadline.com>Venezuela's Electronic News Posted: Sunday, June 08, 2003 By: Patrick J. O'Donoghue

Coordinadora Democratica (CD) has reacted to Venezuela's legislature crisis by appointing Timoteo Zambrano and Asdrubal Aguiar as its representatives on the negotiations agreement liaison committee and sending them to the Organization of American States (OAS)  general assembly in Santiago (Chile)  to lobby support against alleged Venezuelan government violations of the negotiations agreement. 

CD spokesman, Leonardo Carvajal says President Chavez Frias has violated Agreement Clause 8 regarding violence. "What happened in Parliament last week violates Clause 4, which stipulates that both sides must cease any direct or indirect aggression, threat, harassment and violence that breaks or prevents free exercise of rights in Constitution." 

Speaking for CD, Carvajal says he supports opposition deputies' appraisal of Movimiento Quinto Republica's (MVR) El Calvario plenary session last Friday as null and void. "The opposition will not fall into provocation and we will take the matter to the international scene ... Chavez Frias will uncover himself before the international community."

However, Accion Democratica (AD) has opposed the appointment of Zambrano and Aguiar. AD president Jesus Mendez Quijada calls the appointment a political error because he says the two men are dissident voices and as negotiators failed to come up with a favorable agreement. 

It has been learned that AD wanted CD to accept one-time Transport & Communications (MTC) AD minister, Luis Carlos Serra Carmona to represent CD in the liaisons committee.