To conclude, the President strongly protested and condemned the arrest and expulsion on Friday 13 February 2009 of Luis Herrero-Tejedor, member of the EPP-ED group, who had been officially invited to Venezuela by the opposition party.
H.-G. Poterings nosodīja šādu Venecuēlas iestāžu rīcību, norādot, ka tā ir pretrunā ar cilvēktiesībām un vēršas pret Eiropas Parlamentu kā demokrātisku iestādi.