Venezuela and Burkina Faso install First Joint Commission in Caracas
MPPRE Press
Published at: 06/02/2024 12:43 PM
In order to strengthen bilateral cooperation, the
Minister of People's Power for Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, and the Minister
of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Burkinabe
Foreign Affairs, Karamoko Jean Marie Traore, set up this Tuesday the First Meeting of the Venezuela-Burkina Faso Joint Commission.
From the Casa Amarilla Antonio José de Sucre, in Caracas, the Venezuelan
Foreign Minister reported that “both countries have advanced this year in a
series of technical cooperation projects”, which “allow us to reach more than 22
draft agreements today”.
He specified that the Bolivarian Government hopes to reach cooperation
agreements in different areas, the most prominent of which are those in the
mining, oil and industrial fields, in order to turn the
strategic alliance into a model of progress to follow.
In addition, he explained that Venezuela, because it is an oil country,
has a great interest in strengthening the energy and
mining area together with Burkina Faso, considering that this allied nation, in this last aspect, is a major
producer and exporter of gold on the African continent.
The First Meeting of the Venezuela-Burkina Faso Mixed Commission
-which will conclude on February 7 with the signing of bilateral agreements- was
promoted by a meeting held by the President of the Republic,
Nicolás Maduro Moros, with the Burkinabe Prime Minister, Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla, in May of last year.
“This cooperation is very important. I would like to tell you that it took
us 22 hours of flight to get here to Venezuela, imagine how
important (for example) it is to have this cooperation and improve our
relationship in terms of air services to reduce that number of hours,”
said diplomat Marie Traore, referring to the fact that Burkina Faso
is committed to strengthening the good relationship of friendship and cooperation with the country of Simon Bolivar.
Educational exchange for development
Thanks to the Grand Mariscal Foundation of Ayacucho
(Fundayacucho), there are eight Burkinabe students in Venezuela,
training at the “Dr. Salvador Allende” Latin American School of Medicine.
Foreign Minister Gil stressed that this achievement of the
Bolivarian Revolution, which prioritizes the advancement of decisive and firm relationships with the
peoples of Africa, is a historic event because it is the first time that the country has received Burkinabe students.
“We are ready to immediately increase the
possibility of receiving more students from Burkina Faso in Venezuela, in the
areas of Integral Community Medicine and others of strategic interest,” he said,
emphasizing the sending of young Venezuelans to Ouagadougou as an educational exchange.
Venezuela's foreign policy towards the countries of the African
continent was transformed with the vision of a new
Bolivarian geopolitics promoted by Commander Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías and that
currently this vision - under the principle of multipolarity - is promoted by President Nicolás Maduro.
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