The executive vice president of the Republic, Delcy Rodriguezreported this Thursday that he held a meeting with the president of the National Development and Reform Commission of China, Zheng Shanjie, with whom he signed an agreement that includes the new energy and financial path between both nations.
In statements to Venezolana de Televisión, the vice president took stock of the first day of work on her official visit to the Asian country.
“We have completed our first day of visiting the People’s Republic of China. We began with an extraordinary meeting with the president of the National Development and Reform Commission, our friend Zheng Shanjie, we reviewed our cooperation agenda that had been extended in the September 2023 visit of President Nicolás Maduro and, furthermore, as extraordinary news “We have signed the act that includes the new energy and financial path between our countries,” highlighted the also Minister for Petroleum.
In addition, he stated that this will allow bilateral cooperation to be activated at a more efficient level and broaden the horizon in the areas of work to overcome common challenges.
Later, Rodríguez had a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Han Zheng, in the Great Hall of the People to review the work route, VTV reported.
“Then we had an extraordinary working meeting with the vice president of China, the extraordinary Han Zheng. We appreciated China’s support against the illegitimate blockade that exists against Venezuela and we also ratified Venezuela’s support for the one-China principle. Since the president’s visit in 2023, during which the strategic relationship was raised at all times and at all times with President Xi Jinping, exchanges between our countries have considerably increased, with financial energy cooperation as the central axis of which other strategic sectors are derived,” he emphasized.
The vice president reiterated that China and Venezuela are part of a solid united front of international cooperation in defense of the United Nations Charter and to strengthen the global South, “we repudiate the hegemonisms and unilateralisms that threaten the sovereignty of the countries.”
Likewise, he noted that they recognize the Brics group as a geopolitical bloc that seeks an inclusive economy and allows access to the global South and ratified that they will continue to strengthen the friendship of China and Venezuela.
