Given the turmoil of the current global geopolitics, the South must demonstrate that “it can build a more egalitarian world under cooperation, solidarity and complementarity,” said the Foreign Minister of the Republic, Yván Gil, during the installation of the Venezuela Mixed Commission on Tuesday. –Guinea Bissau.
The installation ceremony of the mixed commission between the two countries takes place in the Casa Amarilla, headquarters of the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Venezuela, with the presence of the Vice Prime Minister of the Interior and Public Order of Guinea Bissau, Soares Sambú, and the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Yván Gil, together with the delegations of both nations.
During his speech, the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, on behalf of the President of the Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, welcomed the delegation present in the country of Guinea Bissau.
He stressed that “the central axis of cooperation between the two countries must be south-south and taking into account complementarity. It is necessary to resume the path towards dialogue between regional organizations with Africa”.
He recalled that both countries have signed 22 cooperation instruments and exchange visits such as the one made by the President of Guinea Bissau on November 2 and 3, 2022, the celebration of this Mixed Commission was completed.
Good diplomatic relations
He emphasized that Venezuela and Guinea Bissau maintain good diplomatic relations. “17 years ago, on April 6, diplomatic relations were established and formalized in a context under the leadership first of Hugo Chávez and now with President Maduro, with whom we are walking towards the strengthening of diplomatic relations between our country and the motherland. Africa, with a view to building a multicentric and multipolar world”.
Both countries have made progress in education, with postgraduate studies in health sciences, “with which we will have health professionals from that country, to continue training, and we continue to advance in the culturecommunication, education, housing, habitat, air and maritime transport, among other areas, to generate development for both peoples”, said Gil.
With this meeting, the Foreign Minister added, “we aspire that this Mixed Commission is a step to establish the scaffolding that yields concrete results for both peoples. To this end, we have ample potential in Guinea Bissau in terms of agriculture, as well as a privileged position for maritime connectivity.”
He stressed that Venezuela has always received the support of Guinea Bissau in the face of the constant aggressions of neocolonialism, “we fight the same evils and we have common enemies, the imperial and neocolonial centers, for this reason our commitment is the south – south.”
Objective of the Mixed Commission: concretize agreements
For his part, the Vice Prime Minister of the Interior and Public Order of Guinea Bissau, Soares Sambú, during his speech he commented that “cooperation must materialize and unite us in the potential we have. Concrete actions are imperative in view of the established agreements”.
In this sense, he affirmed that that country has the will to concretize agreements already signed, as well as to sign more agreements.
“We have the political will to approach and unite in the potential, the agreements must be completed without delay. The concretion of agreements is imperative, ”he added.
He stressed that the dynamic that South-South cooperation is now gaining calls for taking better advantage of the potential offered, especially in a context in which there is less and less support for development possibilities, since even countries known as rich face uncertainty .
He also indicated that it is necessary to identify specific project actions that can contribute to sustaining these agreements.
“The international diplomatic political framework is presented today more than ever in a favorable light,” said Soares Sambú. In addition, he ratified the solidarity of Guinea Bissau with the “sister Republic of Venezuela, affirming sovereignty in the face of constant external aggressions” in the face of the constant external aggressions that it suffers and has suffered.
Visit
A delegation from the Republic of Guinea-Bissauheaded by Soares Sambú, Vice Prime Minister of the Interior and Public Order, arrived in Venezuela on Monday, with the aim of installing the I Meeting of the Mixed Commission Venezuela – Guinea-Bissau.
The official and the delegation of that country were received at the Simón Bolívar International Airport, in La Guaira, by the Vice Minister for Africa of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yuri Pimentel.
During their stay in the city of Caracas, the Guinea Bissau delegation is expected to develop a productive work agenda, in order to strengthen bilateral relations.
mutual cooperation
In November 2022, the presidents Nicolás Maduro and Umaro Sissoco Embaló, who was on an official visit in Caracas, held a meeting with the purpose of strengthening strategic cooperation between Venezuela and Guinea-Bissau.
The current visit is part of the 17th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Venezuela and Guinea-Bissau, which began under the mandate of Commander Hugo Chávez on April 6, 2006.
By 2008, both countries signed the Cooperation Framework Agreement and Memorandum of Understanding to establish consultation mechanisms.
