Want Venezuela elections - Moavero

(ANSA) - Rome, January 30 - Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi said on Venezuela Wednesday that "the European Union, with the full support of Italy, has always insisted on five points: the full restoration and respect for the powers of the national Assembly, that credible presidential elections be called, the release of all political prisoners, the full guarantee of freedom of information and expression, and the opening of humanitarian corridors".
    Moavero said Italy "fully sees itself in the EU declaration of Saturday 26, a position that reaffirms the objective of arriving at free, democratic and transparent elections".
    "We recognise ourselves also in a term of days within which the elections must be called, although the number of days is not specified in the EU declaration".
    The South American country is in the throes of a crisis caused by a standoff between President Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaidò.