Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—Acting President of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez announced on Monday that she held a telephone conversation with the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, to address the US-“Israel”-created crisis in West Asia.

“I have spoken by telephone with His Highness the Emir of the State of Qatar, to whom I conveyed our solidarity in the face of the serious situation of instability and violence that has broken out in the Middle East, which has placed the entire region on the brink of a dangerous escalation of war,” Rodríguez wrote on social media.

She reaffirmed her conviction that only dialogue and diplomacy can chart a sure course to peace. The acting head of state issued an urgent call for negotiations to be reactivated immediately, in strict adherence to the principles of sovereignty, independence, and the values enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations.