President Maduro promised to show"good faith" ahead of the talks, which kicked off Monday, lasting well into the night, the sources say, adding that they could end on Wednesday.
Norwegian Foreign Affairs Minister Ine Eriksen Soreide provided few details of the talks held behind closed doors, but reported some advance. No information filtered out regarding the content or form of the talks, the first face-to-face meeting between the two sides."We note the talks in Norway.
Guaido said in a statement that his representatives "will talk with both the Norwegian government and with representatives" of Maduro after the two sides travelled separately to Oslo last week to meet with the leaders of the Norwegian mediation effort.Norway said on Saturday that representatives of Venezuela's government and opposition will return to Oslo next week following an initial round of preliminary talks about how to address the country's political crisis.
The ruling Socialist Party has endorsed the talks, but opposition sympathisers remain sceptical, arguing that Maduro has previously used dialogue as a stalling tactic to maintain his grip on power while living standards steadily declined in the oil-rich nation. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees also urged other states not to deport or force them back."It is incredibly important that given the situation in Venezuela that there aren't deportations, expulsions or forced returns," UNHCR spokeswoman Liz Throssell told a news briefingVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday proposed early elections for the National Assembly, which is run by the opposition.
The representatives of each side arrived in the Nordic country this week, signalling a fresh approach to ending months of tensions that escalated after a failed uprising last month led by opposition leader Juan Guaido, who called on the military to oust Maduro."Norway announces that it has had preliminary contacts with representatives of the main political actors of Venezuela, as part of an exploratory phase," the ministry said in a statement.
Guaido said any diplomatic process aimed at resolving the Venezuelan crisis must lead to the end of Maduro's government, its replacement by a transitional administration and free and fair elections.The United Nations said Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is "very much supportive" of the talks in Norway between Venezuela's government and opposition on ways of ending the South American country's crisis.
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