Venezuela and the Netherlands exchange views on issues of common interest: the conversation between foreign ministers

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Oliver Blanco, held a telephone contact this Monday with his counterpart from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Tom Berendsen, to strengthen relations between the two nations.

Through his account on the social network X, the Venezuelan Foreign Minister described the conversation as cordial and stressed that they exchanged “views on issues of common interest and opportunities for cooperation to strengthen our bilateral relations.”

Venezuela and the Kingdom of the Netherlands maintain a framework of cooperation focused primarily on regional security, border delimitation and neighborhood relations with the islands of the Dutch Caribbean, such as Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao.

Both nations maintain active mechanisms to combat transactional organized crime, highlighting the recent establishment of technical working groups between the Venezuelan National Anti-Drug Superintendency and the Dutch police aggregator, with the objective of optimizing intelligence and the interdiction of illegal substances on their common border.