Venezuela and Guinea-Bissau signed a strategic association agreement between the two nations on Wednesday, during a meeting between the president of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro and the President of Guinea Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló.
From the Simón Bolívar Room in Miraflores, Maduro said, “The time has come to promote Africa with South America.”
He stressed that it is time to increase bilateral trade and cooperate in all forms of economy, education and health.
“We have had a good day to build the comprehensive cooperation map, we are going to support several oil exploration plans, we will unite our airlines, we are going to advance in the health plans,” he announced.
He added that 100 students from Guinea will come to Venezuela to study in the area of medicine, “we also have plans to build houses, we will promote strategies for the fight against drug trafficking and we have made a good start with a comprehensive map of relations with the sister country,” he said.
“The first ten have already arrived and we hope that in the coming weeks they will come from Guinea Bissau to study; and to bring together the health plans between our countries,” she added.
Likewise, the National President pointed out that “all the historical baggage of knowledge, science and technique” of Venezuela in the oil sector is at the order of Guinea Bissau to launch shared plans.
“We have already explored several plans that we are going to put into operation to support Guinea Bissau in all exploration tasks on its coasts, cooperation between the oil industries,” he stressed at the end of the Joint Declaration.
The agenda of the Guinea-Bissau delegation will last until November 4.
The strategic alliances also include the areas of energy, telecommunications, transportation and education.
The agenda of the Guinea-Bissau delegation will last until November 4.
The strategic alliances also include the areas of energy, telecommunications, transportation and education.
Re-encouragement of the unity between Africa and South America
On the other hand, the Venezuelan President assured that this visit is very important for the region, “talk with President Lula, he is a great Africanist and we talked about resuming the summit relations between Africa and South America«.
“Now with the arrival of Lula, with your leadership as President of the Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the time will have to come sooner rather than later when we reactivate the summit mechanisms between Africa and South America,” he asserted.
In this sense, Maduro advocated the reactivation of unitary mechanisms between Africa and South America.
The Head of State stressed that Venezuela is advancing steadily in the construction of a new world based on respect, equality and solidarity, away from the vices of the old colonialism “which has tried to impose itself at all times and which it intends, from a buffoon operetta, to prevail in the 21st century”.
In this sense, he stressed that “the 21st century is the century of peoples”, built on peace with a view “towards a new prosperity, a new humanity”.
“A new world is what we want to build and this is our century, the 21st century above any difficulty, any imperialist campaign to defame our countries or arrogant and arrogant declaration of the new empires, of the old empires is our moral, our spiritual strength”, he emphasized.
The alliances between Guinea-Bissau and Venezuela date back to April 6, 2006, under the command of Commander Hugo Chávez. In 2008, both parties signed the Cooperation Framework Agreement and Memorandum of Understanding to establish consultation mechanisms.
