U.S. President Donald Trump met behind closed doors here with Venezuela's acting leader, Delcy Rodríguez, on the sidelines of the highest-level meeting at the UN General Assembly.

Smiling in both in the photos published on social media, Rodríguez said last night on her X account that she held a "historic meeting" with Trump.

"We talked about strengthening the bilateral relationship between our countries and advancing a cooperation agenda in strategic areas such as energy, mining, security and other matters of common interest," she wrote.

"We express our gratitude to President Trump and his government for their decisive support during the emergency caused by the earthquakes of last June 24, as well as for their backing of the process of our country's reinsertion into multilateral spaces," she added.

The expanded message on Telegram stressed that "Venezuela and the United States share a historic relationship that, in this new stage, we are called to channel through dialogue."

"We will continue promoting a diplomacy at the service of the national interest, aimed at achieving concrete results and collective benefits for the Venezuelan people," Rodríguez concluded in assessing this first face-to-face meeting with Trump and also the first between a U.S. president and a Venezuelan authority in more than 11 years.

The previous one was a brief exchange between Barack Obama (2009-2017) and Nicolás Maduro on the occasion of the Summit of the Americas, held in 2015 in Panama.

Delcy Rodríguez assumed the office after the large-scale U.S. attack on Venezuela in the early hours of last January 3 that resulted in the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, lawmaker Cilia Flores. As a consequence of the aggression, more than a hundred people died, including 32 Cubans.