The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, received on Monday the Credentials of the designated Ambassadors of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the Republics of Türkiye, South Africa and Argentina.
From the Salón Sol del Perú, in Miraflores, the ambassador of the Republic of South Africa, Lindiwe Michelle Maseko, delivers the credentials that accredit her as a diplomatic authority in Venezuela.
Born on March 2, 1958, Maseko has a Bachelor of Laws from the University of South Africa (Unisa), a Postgraduate Diploma in Management and a Masters in Management in the field of Public Governance and Leadership from the WITS Business School.
In his political exercise, his work in the National Executive Committee of the African National Council (ANC) stands out, an instance in which he also served as a representative at the local level (Provincial and National) of the ANC.
In the legislative area, the South African diplomat served as a deputy of the Gauteng Legislative Council, a body where she worked as President between 1994-2014; She was a member of the National Assembly (2014-2019) and a member of the Parliamentary Association of the Parliamentary Association of the African National Council (APC).
Venezuela and South Africa maintain solid economic cooperation, recently based on agreements signed at the Venezuela – South Africa Business Forum in 2020 aimed at strategic alliances in the commercial, mining, oil, agricultural and tourism areas.
On March 30, 2022, regarding the culmination of the diplomatic functions of Joseph Muzi Khehla Nkosi as Ambassador of South Africa in Venezuela, the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, pointed out that bilateral relations have advanced in the development of investment oil and trade.
Likewise, the Head of State and Government, Nicolás Maduro Moros, received the credentials of the designated Ambassador of the Republic of Türkiye in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Naci Aydan Karamanoğlu.
The diplomat is a native of the city of Ankara, speaks Turkish, French, English and Spanish and has a degree in International Relations from the Faculty of International Relations of the Institute of Political Studies in Lyon, France (1995).
In his extensive public career, he was a candidate for Career Diplomat of the Department for Slavic States of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey. (1997-1998) and candidate for Career Diplomat Attaché in the Department for Eastern Europe of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey (1998 – 1999).
He also served as Third Secretary Attaché of the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Havana (1999-2001), in Rome. (2001-2004), Second Secretary and First Secretary of the Department for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Euro-Atlantic Security of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey. (2004 -2006).
He held positions as Counselor of the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Turkey to the UN in New York (2008-2011), in Kabul (2012 -2013) and Washington DC (2013 – 2018), He served as Minister Plenipotentiary and Deputy Director General of the Deputy Directorate of Communications and Relations with Society. (2018).
The diplomatic relations that both nations maintain are based on the principles of solidarity, peace and self-determination of the peoples; links that envision the challenges and advances in economic, social and commercial matters, strengthened in bilateral agreements.
Similarly, the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Gareth Bynoe, delivers credentials to the Venezuelan Head of State and Government, Nicolás Maduro Moros.
The Ambassador, who since last January was appointed by the Caribbean nation, was born on July 20, 1984 in the city of Kingstown, has a degree in International Relations, graduated from the University of Puebla, United Mexican States, in 2009 He specializes in topics such as the blue economy, sustainable development and the study of the challenges of small states from the Caribbean perspective.
He has served as representative of the government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines before the United Nations Diplomatic Mission and as alternate ambassador to the Organization of American States, from 2014 to 2019.
Both nations reaffirm their ties of brotherhood, cooperation and mutual respect that have been maintained since October 29, 1981 and continue to strengthen with the arrival of the Bolivarian Revolution.
Lastly, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, receives this Monday the credentials of the Ambassador of the Republic of Argentina, Oscar Laborde, an action that represents the will to restore alliances of mutual respect, self-determination and non-interference between both nations.
The accreditation of the Argentine diplomat acquires a special nuance of importance, due to the fact that the bilateral relations between Argentina and Venezuela were strained during the mandate of the liberal Mauricio Macri (2015-2019), who recognized the figure of parallel governments in the South American nation and I also support interventionist formulas that promoted the economic and financial attack against Venezuela.
In this thorny journey of the ties between the two countries, it is also said that the Argentine Army prepared for an invasion of Venezuela during the last year in office of then President Mauricio Macri (year 2019).
The operation against Venezuela thus supported the plans of the United States to overthrow the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro.
It should be noted that these military exercises were carried out at a time when the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, was planning ways to remove the Venezuelan dignitary, including trade sanctions that had the support of several South American nations, including Argentina macrista .
With the mandate of Alberto Fernández that began on December 10, 2019, these tensions dissipated, but the positions of the president remained lukewarm, who once came to declare about the situation of human rights in Venezuela and He pointed out that this “problem was disappearing in the Caribbean nation that has been experiencing a serious unprecedented humanitarian, political and social crisis for years under the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro.”
This made relations between Argentina and Venezuela delicate, since the president of the southern nation supported the UN reports on alleged human rights abuses, in the mandate of President Maduro.
In April 2022, with a friendly tone, Fernández himself maintained that Argentina wanted to “regain its full diplomatic ties with Venezuela”, considering that it meant an important step.
At present, fully restoring alliances of mutual respect, self-determination and non-interference will be sustained largely on the basis of the work carried out by the new ambassador Oscar Laborde in Venezuela.
From 2008 to 2015, Laborde was Coordinator of the Consultative Council of Civil Society of the Foreign Ministry and Special Representative for Economic Integration and Social Participation of the Argentine Foreign Ministry with the rank of Ambassador.
In 2014, he served as director of the Institute for Latin American Studies (IDEAL). He was dedicated to academic research on issues related to the region.
He served as a Mercosur Parliamentarian elected by the National District, as vice president of the Mercosur Parliament and president of the Democracy Observatory of the Mercosur Parliament, in 2015.
He was also president of the Mercosur Parliament 2020: in his capacity as President of Parlasur, he led the mission of the Democracy Observatory in the Bolivian presidential elections in October 2020, participating in all the preparation together with the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.
Likewise, he headed electoral missions in Chile, Peru, Brazil, Venezuela and Paraguay; and since 2021, he was president of the Foundation for the Development of Latin America, FUDESAL.
