The United States and Venezuela have launched a new bid to improve ties with the most high-level meeting in months. On Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry sat down with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elías Jaua at a summit in Guatemala. Kerry said the talks will continue.

Secretary of State John Kerry: “We agreed today, both of us, Venezuela and the United States, that we would like to see our countries find a new way forward, establish a more constructive and positive relationship and find the ways to do that.”

The sit-down came as Venezuela released a U.S. filmmaker it had held for over a month on accusations of seeking to destabilize the government. The filmmaker, Tim Tracy, returned to the United States on Wednesday. He has rejected Venezuela’s allegations, which were never specified, and maintained he was in the country making a documentary film.