This Sunday, July 16, Delcy Rodríguez, Vice President of Venezuela, arrived in Brussels (Belgium) to participate in the III EU-Celac Summit. Despite the sanctions imposed, in 2018, by the bloc of European countries on Nicolás Maduro’s official, she will represent the country in the meeting whose purpose is to discuss the ecological and digital transition
Vice President Delcy Rodríguez announced this Sunday, July 16, her arrival in Brussels (Belgium) to participate in the III Summit European Union-Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (EU-Celac). The announcement was made through her Twitter account, in which she posted a video showing his arrival and reception in the European capital.
Rodríguez is part of the list of officials of the Nicolás Maduro administration sanctioned, since 2018, for “undermining, in his opinion, democracy, the rule of law and human rights.” In 2020 a clandestine meeting that he held in Barajas (Madrid) with the former Minister of Transport of Spain, José Luis Ábalos, gave rise to an investigation for the alleged violation of his ban on entry to territories of the Old Continent.
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«On behalf of Pdte. Nicolas Maduro we have arrived in Brussels to participate in the III EU-CELAC Summit. The Bolivarian Peace Diplomacy advocates respectful relations between equals and is the voice of our people in the world, “Rodríguez affirms in the tweet, which accompanies a video with his reception.
On behalf of Pdte. @NicolasMaduro We have arrived in Brussels to participate in the III EU-CELAC Summit.
The Bolivarian Diplomacy of Peace advocates relations of respect between equals and is the voice of our people in the world. pic.twitter.com/nOMIQMPBYP
— Delcy Rodríguez (@delcyrodriguezv) July 16, 2023
Yván Gil, Venezuelan Foreign Minister; Jorge Valero, Venezuelan ambassador to the EU; and Claude Salermo, ambassador of Venezuela in the Kingdom of Belgium, welcomed the deputy president at the airport.
EU-Celac Summit
The III EU-Celac Summit begins this Monday, July 17, in the capital of Belgium. The purpose of this is to be able to discuss collaboration between countries to advance on agenda issues such as the ecological and digital transition, in addition to showing the commitment to international defense.
The summit will be chaired by the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, in his capacity as president pro tempore of Celac, will be attended by the heads of state and Government of the Member States of the EU and of the States of the Community of States.
On July 11, the government of Nicolás Maduro joined the Cuban reviewswhich pointed out an alleged lack of transparency of the EU in the organization of parallel events to the summit between the members of the European bloc and the nations that make up Celac.
Also the Peoples Summit He denounced unilateral “coercive measures” that sought to prevent Venezuela’s participation in Brussels.
«The organizations that promote the Summit of the Peoples to be held on July 17 and 18 in Brussels, aware of the importance of the EU-Celac Summit, its holding frozen since 2015, we want to denounce the attempt by various figures from the extreme right to cloud the holding of this Summit by urging the European Union to interfere in the internal affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, even going so far as to threaten its President”, refers the text.
meeting attendees
Of the 33 States that are part of Celac, 26 confirmed their attendance at the level of Head of State or Government, the rest will do so through their Foreign Minister or Minister of Foreign Affairs, as is the case of Peru and Mexico, since López Obrador is not used to making international visits; reviewed The Republic.
This Sunday, July 16, Latin American leaders began to arrive in Brussels, including Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvafirst president of Brazil, and who will have special attention: he has promoted the negotiations of the free trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay).
The two regional blocs (EU and Celac) account for almost a quarter of world GDP and the European Union ranks as Celac’s second trading partner, after the US, while Celac is the fifth trading partner of the EU.
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