Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez' weekly radio and TV "Hello, President" has been temporarily suspended, said on Sunday Andrés Izarra, Minister of Information and Communication.

"Don't worry, we do not have an extraordinary situation going on," he told the official TV station Venezolana de Televisión, adding that an agreement was made to "suspend the show until further notice."

"We are revamping the show: the format, the presentation. You are well aware that "Hello, President" is one of our major communicational tools. The show is to be off the air while we adopt new definitions we made (early on Sunday) during a meeting attended by Chávez' cabinet and (pro-government) governors and mayors."

He refused to say when Chávez' program is to be resumed. "We do not want to make any announcements before the program is redefined."

He claimed that their planned new communicational strategy is to take "more than a year," including the democratization of the radio-electric spectrum and the creation of a domestic audiovisual industry."