Ralph Gonsalves, president pro tempore of Celac, met with President Nicolás Maduro to review bilateral cooperation, according to VTV. However, the meeting is recorded after the conclusions regarding the international conference on Venezuela were given.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro received the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, on Tuesday night, April 25, to review the “cooperation map” between the two nations.
Gonsalves, who participated in the international conference on Venezuela held in Bogotá, was received by Maduro at the Miraflores Palace together with the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez; the foreign minister, Yván Gil, and the vice minister for the Caribbean, Raúl Li Causi.
According to the VTV broadcast, the joint agreements between Venezuela and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines were analyzed, as well as seeking to “strengthen ties of brotherhood and cooperation between sister nations”; strengthen the Latin American union and review the challenges of the region through the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac); body that Gonsalves currently chairs.
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#Live ? | Meeting with Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. https://t.co/ILnYfmP2G3
— Nicolas Maduro (@NicolasMaduro) April 25, 2023
Earlier, Nicolás Maduro spoke with the Brazilian ambassador for Climate Change, Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, about his tour of the seven countries that make up the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO).
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The state channel did not offer further details about the meeting and there were no statements by the officials; although a message from the Venezuelan president in Twitter He indicated that the meeting revolved around the Amazon countries working together to protect the environment.
I received a pleasant visit from Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado, Extraordinary Ambassador for Climate Change of Brazil. Our objective as sister nations is to work more and more together for the protection of the environment and the Amazon region. We will advance! pic.twitter.com/XAD6q2GceS
— Nicolas Maduro (@NicolasMaduro) April 25, 2023
Figueiredo, who has been visiting the Caribbean nation since Sunday April 23, met with Foreign Minister Yván Gil on Monday April 24 to evaluate bilateral cooperation for the protection of the Amazon.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalled that, at the end of 2022, Maduro “highlighted the need to reactivate ACTO to seek the salvation of the Amazon rainforest”, where “there has been great damage in recent decades (…) due to the effects linked to with the predatory capitalist system.
In November 2022At COP27 held in Egypt, Maduro asked the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, to reactivate the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (TCA), so that the countries that border it: Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Suriname, Guyana and French Guyana can resume their work of caring for the region’s forests in the face of deforestation and the effects of climate change.
With additional information from EFE
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