Former Polish president and Nobel Peace Price laureate, Lech Walesa, decided to drop his plans to visit Venezuela because local authorities said they could not guarantee his security in the country, reported on Sunday Fredo Arias King, a Sovietologist and editor of the academic quarterly Demokratizatsya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization.

According to the researcher, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Piotr Gulczynski, head of the Warsaw-based Lech Walesa Institute and first assistant of the former President of Poland, that the government of Venezuela had reported that it could not guarantee Walesa's security during his visit to the South American country.

Walesa; Arias; the former Foreign Minister of Slovakia, Eduard Kukan; the former prime minister of Bulgaria, Philip Dimitrov; and the former minister of the Czech Republic, Jan Ruml, were invited by the Secretariat of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) and the local office of the Respekt Casla Institute to participate in the forum Democracy: An issue for people which is taking place in Caracas on November 3.