CARACAS, April 16 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela William Brownfield has agreed to inform the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry of his public activity plans in Venezuela after experiencing repeated harassment here, a government official said on Sunday

    Information Minister William Lara said that Brownfield and Venezuela's Deputy Foreign Minister for North America Mari Pili Hernandez met on Wednesday to discuss plans for security coordination and that Hernandez had insisted that Brownfield give the foreign ministry a written notice of his public engagements in advance.

    Lara explained that the purpose of the measure was to allow the nation to offer him security, whilst still allowing Venezuelans to demonstrate peacefully and democratically either in their support for or disapproval of Brownfield's presence.

    "At last Mr Brownfield has understood that this is a sovereign nation, ... and that the aim of the government is to offer him the security to which he is entitled," Lara said.

    He added that Brownfield had used Wednesday's meeting to give notice of his two public engagements.

    There have been four incidents of harassment directed at Brownfield in recent weeks. The latest one came on last Friday, during which Browfield's car was pelted with eggs and tomatoes when he visited a Caracas neighborhood to deliver donated baseball equipment.

    The incident intensified the diplomatic tension between the United States and Venezuela, with Washington censuring Venezuela for having failed to fulfill its obligations under international accords to provide protection for foreign diplomats.

    The accusation was rejected by Venezuela, which said that it was willing to provide protection for Brownfield, but part of the problem was that the ambassador did not inform the government of his engagements, which made it difficult to provide prompt security measures. Enditem