Venezuela says interim president Rodriguez not planning trips abroad

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Ceremony, honouring Venezuelan and Cuban military and security personnel who died during a U.S. operation to capture Venezuela’s President Maduro and his wife, in Caracas

Jan 9 (Reuters) - ​The Venezuelan government on Friday said interim president Delcy Rodriguez ⁠is not due to carry out any international trips in ‍the near future, after Colombian President ​Gustavo Petro suggested there could be an upcoming meeting in his country.

Rodriguez's ​administration is "focused as a government on the domestic agenda," Communications Minister Freddy Ñañez said in a post on Telegram.

Petro ‌had told newspaper El Pais in ‌an interview published on Friday that ​his Venezuelan counterpart was expected to visit the Colombian capital ‌Bogota in the coming weeks.

"She has ⁠asked for two weeks. She ‌needs to see ​what is happening in her own country," Petro was quoted as ⁠saying.

(Reporting by ⁠Emma Pinedo and Iñigo Alexander; Writing ​by Gabriel Araujo; Editing by Philippa Fletcher ‌and Sarah Morland)

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