Venezuela and Burkina Faso install First Joint Commission in Caracas

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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