{"id":31305,"date":"2019-01-31T23:23:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T23:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31305"},"modified":"2019-01-31T23:23:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T23:23:44","slug":"maduro-says-hes-willing-to-negotiate-with-opposition-international-mediators-but-rules-out-new-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31305","title":{"rendered":"Maduro says he&#8217;s willing to negotiate with opposition, international mediators, but rules out new elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Caracas, Venezuela (CNN)<\/cite>Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro said he is willing to meet with opposition leaders and international mediators to bring about a solution to the country&#8217;s ongoing political crisis, but ruled out holding any new presidential elections until 2025.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;I&#8217;m ready to sit down at the negotiating table with the opposition so that we can speak for the good of Venezuela &#8212; for the world and its future,&#8221; Maduro told Russian state news agency RIA Novosti in an interview published Wednesday. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Maduro was re-elected to a six-year term last year, and though he claimed the elections were fair, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/05\/20\/americas\/venezuela-elections\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">international observers have questioned their legitimacy.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caracas, Venezuela (CNN)Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro said he is willing to meet with opposition leaders and international mediators to bring about a solution to the country&#8217;s ongoing political crisis, but ruled out holding any new presidential elections until 2025.&#8221;I&#8217;m ready to sit down at the negotiating table with the opposition so that we can speak&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}