Colombia's president says he will convene int’l conference to promote dialogue in Venezuela

Colombia’s president announced Tuesday that he plans to convene an international conference that will seek to “promote dialogue between sectors of Venezuela.”

The move comes less than a week after Gustavo Petro met with his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro in the capital Caracas.

"I will convene an international conference in Colombia with the objective of building the roadmap that allows effective political dialogue between society and the Venezuelan government," Petro wrote on Twitter.

In a statement, the government said the meeting of representatives of countries in Europe and Latin America as well as the US would take place in the capital Bogota on a date "to be defined."