The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, affirmed after his return from a tour of Eurasian and African countries, that he had achieved “major agreements” on investment in oil, gas, food, tourism, and science and technology.
“We bring in our hands large agreements in terms of investment in oil, gas, agriculture, food, tourism, air transport, connection, and in large agreements in something fundamental, large agreements in matters of science and technology,” the president said in statements. from the Maiquetía International Airport, which serves Caracas.
The president’s tour began on June 7 in Turkey and continued through Algeria, Iran, Kuwait, Qatar and Azerbaijan.
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Maduro asked young Venezuelans to prepare to travel to these countries to study science, technology and innovation of the 21st century.
“We bring hundreds of offers of places to study in Algeria, Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkey, where we already have an important group of boys being trained and boys from those countries also come to be trained in Venezuela, open doors, science, technology, education, culture, Venezuela open to the world,” he said.
The president pointed out that this was a necessary tour at the right time and described it as successful.
Regarding the beginning of these agreements, he explained that he expects in the coming weeks the arrival of businessmen from Turkey, Qatar, Kuwait, Iran, Algeria and Azerbaijan to the Caribbean nation to sign specific investment agreements.
“Starting this week we are going to hold meetings with businessmen from all these countries that come to Venezuela to sign specific investment agreements in gas, oil, petrochemicals, refining, food production in Venezuela,” he added.
Maduro maintained that these countries will be sold qualitatively and exclusively food produced by Venezuela and the surplus will be for the national market or other nations, which he did not detail.
Last Tuesday, the Venezuelan Parliament endorsed the agreements signed by the president on the tour that took him to six Eurasian and African countries.
The legislators recognized the importance of “the strategic cooperation agreements agreed in the economic, scientific, technological, social, cultural, energy and productive areas to promote the comprehensive development and social welfare of the peoples”, achieved by Maduro in this journey.
For his part, the anti-Chavista deputy Timoteo Zambrano pointed out that Maduro’s tour seeks to “break” the “isolation” in which Venezuela is as a result of the international sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union. EFE
