European nations need to encourage dialogue in Venezuela: Bolivia President Morales

Bolivia's leftist President Evo Morales, a supporter of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, said on Friday European nations should support a dialogue within the country.

"History has taught that there have been many interventions from the outside, such as the case of Libya and Iraq, and they never offered a solution", Morales said in translated comments after meeting Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during an official visit in Athens.

"On the contrary it abolished democracy," he said. (Reporting By Renee Maltezou, writing by Angeliki Koutantou and Michele Kambas)