Foreign Minister of Burkina Faso comes to the country to raise levels of cooperation

Published at: 06/02/2024 11:48 AM

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Burkinabe Foreign Affairs of Burkina Faso, Karamoko Jean Marie Traore, arrived in Caracas this Monday and was received at Simon Bolivar International Airport by the Deputy Minister for Africa of the Ministry of People's Power for Foreign Affairs, Yuri Pimentel.

The visit of the Foreign Minister of the allied African nation responds to the holding of the 1st Meeting of the Venezuela-Burkina Faso Joint Commission, which seeks to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the political, economic and commercial spheres.

Venezuela and Burkina Faso established diplomatic relations on September 2, 2003, as part of the geostrategic vision of Commander Hugo Chávez Frías, who since the beginning of the Bolivarian Revolution, after his democratic coming to power in 1999, focused on building diplomatic ties with the 55 countries of Mother Africa.

In May 2023, the Burkinabe Prime Minister, Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla, visited Venezuela in the context of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations, and together with the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, established cooperation mechanisms in the oil, mining, education, agricultural, industrial and cultural sectors, based on respect, cooperation and self-determination.

Minister Karamoko Jean Marie Traore has been Foreign Affairs Counselor, graduated from the National School of Administration and Judiciary (2001-2004) and holds a Master's Degree in Rural Arts, with a mention in Geography, enrolled at the University of Ouagadougou.

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