The plenipotentiary delegate for dialogue and president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, received “an important delegation from the United States and is working to give continuity to the bilateral agenda between the US government and the government of Venezuela,” the President announced. National, Nicolas Maduro.
“This delegation came to give continuity to the dialogue and the agenda initiated on March 5 between the two countries,” said the President, during the delivery of the National Journalism Award.
Maduro also highlighted the intervention of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, during the G7 meeting in Germany, in which he called for the return of Venezuela and Iran, as major oil producers in the world, to join the increase in oil pumping. oil to avoid the rise in prices as a result of the conflict in Ukraine.
France called on Monday to “diversify the sources of oil supply” in the market, including Iran and Venezuela, and for countries to increase their oil production “exceptionally” to curb the rise in prices caused by the war in Ukraine .
“We need the producing countries to pump more exceptionally,” declared the French presidency on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Elmau, in southern Germany, calling for “diversification of supply sources” including Iran and Venezuela in the market.
“We would like them to increase production during the peak of the crisis, without affecting the goal of carbon neutrality,” said Macron.
“So there is a knot to untie if necessary” so that Iranian oil can “return to the markets,” the source emphasized. “Venezuelan oil must also be able to return to the market,” the Elysee added.
For this reason, the first national president sent a message to the French president and assured that “Venezuela is ready to receive all French companies that want to produce oil and gas to sell in the European market.”
New stage between Colombia and Venezuela
On the other hand, President Maduro commented on international relations that Venezuela advocates “brotherhood, cooperation and the union of Colombia and Venezuela in a new stage.
“A new stage of peace, brotherhood, and cooperation with Colombia seems to be opening on the horizon. Today, on National Journalism Day, I hope that the entire Colombian society and the entire Venezuelan society get in tune to search for a new stage between relations between our countries and our people,” said the national president.
Similarly, he highlighted the importance of peace in Colombia for the South American region in order to seek economic, commercial and cultural rapprochement between the two countries.
«The peace of Colombia is the peace of Venezuela and South America, we are in search of economic, commercial, cultural, human cooperation, the pacification of the two thousand two hundred kilometers of border that we have; This is how he does it for a week to President-elect Gustavo Petro and I go to work », he concluded.
