The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, received this Friday the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, Apollinaire Joachimson Kyélem De Tambèla, at the Miraflores Palace, located in Caracas.
The meeting, which takes place in Office 1, aims to deepen the ties of brotherhood and cooperation, regarding the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between both nations.
The prime minister was accompanied by the ambassador to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Aminata Sana Congo, and the Secretary General of the Government and the Council of Ministers, Jacques Sosthène Dingara.
All of them were also received by the first combatant, Cilia Flores de Maduro, the country’s foreign minister, Iván Gil, and the vice minister for Africa, Yuri Pimentel, and the Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Pedro Tellechea.
The Bolivarian Government focuses on strengthening binational cooperation in various sectors, all within the framework of the Bolivarian Diplomacy of Peace.
This bilateral agenda is based on relations of respect and self-determination of the peoples, applied since the arrival of the Bolivarian Revolution in 1999, with which Venezuela has established diplomatic relations with the 55 countries of the African continent.
Earlier
The Executive Vice President of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguez, held a meeting this Friday with authorities of the Republic of Burkina Faso, in which issues of binational interest were addressed.
The Prime Minister of the African nation, Apollinaire Kyélem de Tambèla, has been in the country since last Tuesday with the purpose of signing cooperation agreements that generate benefits for both peoples, in the context of the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of diplomatic relations between both countries.
The agenda is focused on strengthening cooperation in the agricultural, mining, oil, educational, commercial and cultural sectors.
Previously, Foreign Minister Yván Gil held a meeting with Kyélem de Tambèla, in which they agreed to create a mixed commission, as well as to strengthen relations between the African continent and South America.
