Deputy Cilia Flores, the presiding officer of the National Assembly (AN), downplayed Thursday an action taken by the European Parliament.

Earlier, the European Parliament had rebutted the decision made by the government of President Hugo Chávez not to renew a broadcast license for private TV channel Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV).

"That statement is irrelevant and I do think that in every country the parliaments should revise their own reality, because the radio spectrum here in Venezuela is of the public domain, as everywhere else in the world. There is no country in the world where the radio spectrum is private property. Nor can anybody use it arbitrarily. There are regulations in all countries. We respect foreign countries and the only thing we ask is respect for our sovereignty."