The Chancellor of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, following instructions from President Nicolás Maduro, visited Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia and Saint Kitts and Nevis, as part of the integration and cooperation that supports the Bolivarian Diplomacy of Peace with the peoples of the Caribbean.
In Antigua and Barbuda, the Venezuelan Minister after meeting with Prime Minister Gaston Browne, stressed that the Caribbean nation will be part of the Bank of ALBA, a fact that responds to new strategic plans for bilateral cooperation in the Caribbean.
Regarding the diplomatic and political context in the region, the Venezuelan diplomat thanked the support of Antigua and Barbuda for the media and economic onslaught that Venezuela has suffered from US imperialism:
“Venezuela always consolidates with its brothers and sisters of the ALBA and especially the Caribbean who have always been willing to collaborate and accompany the Bolivarian struggle, the struggle of free peoples”, concluded the Chancellor.
The bilateral agenda with a view to deepening ties of cooperation in security and fight against crime, including the crime of drug trafficking were the main topics discussed by the Venezuelan diplomat with the Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, Allen Chastanet.
Geopolitical stability in the region and deepen ties of cooperation between both nations, were the topics addressed by Chancellor Arreaza in the meeting with the Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves.
Also with the intention of strengthening relations of friendship and cooperation with the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Minister Arreaza held a pleasant meeting with Prime Minister Timothy Harris, an encounter where both diplomatic representatives agreed to deepen and intensify efforts to continue benefiting the peoples.
In Africa:
After an intense but transcendental work agenda, the Chancellor of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, made a diplomatic tour of the African continent, in order to strengthen the bonds of cooperation and create new strategies with the sister nations of Africa.
With a clear message of integration and brotherhood, the Bolivarian Diplomacy of Peace, led by President Nicolás Maduro, and represented on this South-South Dignity Tour, by Chancellor Arreaza, toured the sister nations of Mozambique, South Africa and Ghana.
The first stop of the South-South Dignity Tour was Mozambique, a country that served to exchange the vast experience that the Bolivarian Government has in the legislative and political sphere, and thus lay the legal basis for re-establishing political, social and commercial alliances that will be made in the short term.
The Chancellor held high-level meetings with the President of the National Assembly, Verónica Macamo and the President of the Republic of Mozambique, Filipe Nyussi, both meetings were held within the framework of respect, sovereignty, self-determination and had the sole purpose of consolidating the bonds of cooperation and brotherhood.
Without interruption, the Minister made his second stop in the Republic of South Africa, and after meeting with social movements, the Secretary General of the historic African National Congress, Ace Sekgobelo Elias Magashule and the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, assured that the time of the economic, political and social independence of the peoples will be the product of true integration.
“Development does not come alone, we have to unite, that is why we came to Africa, which is the region together with Latin America and the Caribbean, which is called to unite in this historic moment to constitute among us a great pole of power with the great amount of natural resources that we have, that the whole world, the whole humanity needs”, said Minister Arreaza and pointed out that they should be used with a humanist and non-capitalist conscience.
The Republic of Ghana was the third country visited by the representative of the Bolivarian Diplomacy of Peace, where strategic agreements were signed in diplomatic matters, which consists in the suppression of visas in diplomatic passports and services, with the purpose of facilitating the exchange at the highest level between Caracas and Accra.
In terms of energy, the Chancellor met with the President of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, KK Sarpong, who expressed his admiration for the Venezuelan oil industry, which he hopes to visit shortly in order to share the centennial experience he has. Petróleos de Venezuela and thus design a joint plan, technical cooperation and training in the area of energy.
