The Executive Vice President, Tareck El Aissami, informed that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela signed on Tuesday the agreement of the Country Program 2018-2021, with the United Nations Organization for Industrial Development (UNIDO), with the objective of promoting sustainable development from the country.
In this sense, El Aissami stressed that the signing of this agreement will diversify the economy to achieve independence in the production of seven agricultural items such as: rice, coffee, soybeans, cocoa, corn, sugar cane and beans, for that way to shore up the export.
The Vice President of the Republic said that with the Country Program «all the national productive sectors are called to define a work route». He also indicated that what is sought with the signing of the Country Program is to guarantee productive capacity.
«Today, May 8 is a historic and momentous day, because with the signing of the agreement with UNIDO we will finally break the ties of the rentier model to resume agricultural production, among other potentials that Venezuela has».
«This is the response of a worthy people who do not kneel before the imperial pretensions of financially persecuting a people that wants to be free,» he said during the ceremony held at the headquarters of the Vice Presidency of the Republic in Caracas.
The objectives, goals and coordination instances of this agreement will be formally presented tomorrow, May 9 at the headquarters of the Vice Presidency of the Republic, in an act chaired by the Vice President of the Economic Area, Wilmar Castro Soteldo, and that will be attended from the Director of the Programs, Alliances and Field Integration Department, Ciyong Zou, and the Regional Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Division of UNIDO, Diego Masera. Also present will be the Permanent Representative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela before the UNIDO, Jesse Chacón.
