(CNN) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said Friday that she is focused on an orderly transition of power in her country should President Nicolás Maduro leave power, and is confident that Venezuela’s police and armed forces would not oppose such a transition.

Speaking as the US government ramps up pressure on Venezuela’s authoritarian leader, Machado said the crisis in her home country is a key national security consideration for the United States.

“It has become very clear that the Venezuelan conflict is absolutely a priority in matters of national security for the United States and in matters of hemispheric security,” Machado told reporters in Oslo, Norway, where she collected her Nobel Peace Prize this week.

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