US Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States will engage in dialogue with Venezuela with the aim of restoring ambassador-level relations

US Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States will engage in dialogue with Venezuela with the aim of restoring ambassador-level relations.

Following a meeting with Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Elias Jose in Guatemala, Kerry, who is on his first trip to Latin America after taking office, said Wednesday that he was hopeful that a rapprochement could be attained.

Kerry said after the meeting, which took place on the sidelines of the annual Organization of American States general assembly, that the US and Venezuela “agreed today there would be an ongoing, continuing dialogue at a high-level between the State Department and the foreign ministry and we will try to set out an agenda on which we agree on things we can work on together.”