BOGOTA, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Both Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday that they will meet next week to mend bilateral relations.
"On Monday we will meet with President Maduro at the border to fully revise the status of bilateral relations," Santos said via Twitter.
Meanwhile, Maduro confirmed at a press conference in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas that they will meet to define the rules for redirecting the relationship between the two neighbors that share a 2,000-km border stretching from the Caribbean Sea to the Amazonian region.
Maduro said the two sides decided to hold the upcoming meeting last Monday, when he met a special Colombian envoy to discuss the recent disagreements between Caracas and Bogota.
Relations between the two countries went sour two months ago, when Santos met Venezuela's opposition leader Henrique Capriles, main political rival of Maduro.
Two-time presidential runner-up Capriles lost to Maduro in the April elections, but has yet to concede defeat.
Ties with Caracas were "a little bit cold," Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin said here at an official event, but she indicated they would be soon improved thanks to on-going conversations between the two countries.
Holguin added she has been talking with her Venezuelan counterpart Elias Jaua on all disagreements and there is just "one step away" from resuming the path the two countries have traveled "in these two and a half years."
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