The Sectoral Vice President of Planning and Co-President of the Venezuela-Iran High Level Mixed Commission, Ricardo Menéndez, presented a balance of the diplomatic relations that our country has with the Islamic Republic of Iran, on its 71st anniversary:
“We are going to have a binational development plan between the two nations that will allow us to counteract the sanctions that try to destabilize our economies. The idea is to seek to satisfy economic needs and thus seek social welfare with points that cover the Homeland Plan”, as reported by the Minister of People’s Power for Planning.
The head of this portfolio, stressed that the essential thing is to maintain the production chains that allow generating jobs: “It is a job that has been carried out in the medium and long term with the installation of factories and technology transfer. This is how we fight the intentions of the imperialist nations that want to curtail our right to be free and independent”.
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Islamic Republic of Iran are working on an anti-blockade scheme that promotes investment in our nations: “We have to go a step further with a transversal vision that links air and land communications, power generation, mining and agriculture, pillars for our growth. Venezuela seeks to grow through work and the fighting example of Iran, which has also suffered from unjust sanctions”.
Iran’s ambassador to Venezuela, Hojjatollah Soltani, thanked the Venezuelan people and government for their solidarity, in which progress has been made in the construction of projects that satisfy both countries: “We were nations dependent on oil, but based on work and effort we have started economic systems that have allowed us to cover our needs and protect our citizens with social programs. We want to share our technological capacity so that Venezuela can avoid those sanctions that keep it apart from the rest of the continent”.
