Venezuela and Africa reaffirm ties of brotherhood before the Liberator Simon Bolivar

Published at: 24/05/2024 12:05 PM

On the occasion of the XIX World Week of Africa in Venezuela, the Deputy Minister for Africa of the Ministry of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs, Yuri Pimentel, and the African Diplomatic Corps accredited in Caracas honored Liberator Simon Bolivar this Friday, in the National Pantheon, where they placed a wreath before his sarcophagus.

During the solemn ceremony, which ratified the ties of brotherhood and cooperation between Venezuela and the 55 countries that make up the African Union, the diplomats heard the glorious notes of Glory to the Brave People and the anthem of the African Union.

Representing the African Diplomatic Corps based in the country, the ambassadors of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Mohamed Salem Ergueibi; Egypt, Kareem Essam El-Din Amin and Algeria, Yacine Hadji; the chargés d'affaires of Sudan, Wail Abdelgbar; Libya, Ali Omer Ali Mozougi and Nigeria, Badewole Jhonson, and the Consul General of Angola, Mario Domingo Simao.

Ambassadors and ambassadors recently appointed by the Bolivarian Government to nations of Mother Africa were also present.

Venezuela's diplomatic relations with the African continent date back more than 70 years, specifically since the first ties were established with Egypt and Ethiopia in 1950.

With the electoral triumph of Commander Hugo Chávez in 1998 and with him the beginning of the Bolivarian Revolution, relations acquired a new level of cooperation and exchange in the political, economic and cultural spheres, under the principles of Bolivarian Diplomacy of Peace, which promotes the construction of a multicentric and multipolar world.

The celebration of World Africa Week in Venezuela is an initiative that was born in 2005, in order to promote knowledge about Mother Africa in the country and recognize her contribution in different areas for mutual development. It seeks to demonstrate that the Global South and South can lay the foundations of a new world order, based on the principles and purposes of the United Nations Charter, south-south cooperation, solidarity and complementarity.

MPPRE