00:00Statements by Ivan Hill, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela.
00:09Good morning. On behalf of President Nicolás Maduro, I would like to offer a warm welcoming to our friend,
00:20Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mali, our great Abdullahiyeb, who is visiting us this weekend, this week in Caracas,
00:35to hold this second mechanism of political consultation between Mali and Venezuela,
00:41that, as he mentioned, our Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mali, Abdullahiyeb,
00:49we are two nations that have a lot in common, that face and battle in a common cause,
00:58the independence of the people, the sovereignty of our nations, the liberty, the freedom we have
01:04to administer our resources that we are facing, imperialism, neocolonialism, and in that struggle
01:11we are now, we have met in the international scenario, and also we have met in a process,
01:20in a period in which Venezuela, thanks to the vision of Commander Hugo Chávez,
01:27began 26 years ago, a process of approach meant, intense approach meant with the Mother Africa.
01:35we have been developing under instructions of President Nicolás Maduro Moros,
01:42an intense process of re-approachment and coordination in matters and concrete matters,
01:50practical matters, commercial topics, finance, cooperation in the area of education, in the area of healthcare,
01:58healthcare, energy sector, agricultural sector, with every single country of Africa, and Mali is one of them.
02:06Let's recall that the action of President Hugo Chávez, the realization of projects in the area of households,
02:16culture as well, but also in other domains, like it is the formation of healthcare professionals of Mali in Venezuela,
02:27that are undergoing master's degrees and post-graduate degrees, and we are moving forward in the given of more post-graduate scholarships for Mali students.
02:48Also, the minister is going to hold several meetings with several ministers of the country of our government,
02:53cultural mining, education, university, with also the secretary of the ALBA TCP,
03:02we are going to be exchanging experiences in our integrationist Union, Latin American Union and the alliance of states of Sahel,
03:15that is also a motive of political exchange to understand, to go deep into the political situation of this region.
03:24We have had a discussion of over an hour with minister, where we went through every one of these aspects,
03:36and we have reaffirmed the compromise and commitment of Mali and Venezuela to go jointly through a series of aspects of geopolitical issues,
03:48precisely the unilateral sanctions against Mali and Venezuela, both nations who have been victims of the illegal application of unilateral coercive measures that together we are facing,
04:02together we condemn them, and we have demanded its immediate lifting as nations, as independent nations,
04:13as well as brothers as well as brothers we are, and also through our group of friends of the United Nations Chartered.
04:21Also, we have reaffirmed the condemnation of the aggressions against the people of Palestine, as the minister mentioned,
04:28demanding the freedom that the Palestinian people have become an independent state, as it is mandated by the United Nations.
04:42in its border before 1967, with Jerusalem as its capital, and also the return of all the Palestinian refugees.
04:54This visit of the minister here marks a key point in the history of relations between Mali and Venezuela,
05:03because it is going to allow us to design all mechanisms of cooperation, of concrete cooperation in trade matters, in industrial, agricultural, finance matters.
05:16President Nicolás Maduro-Moros has been emphatic in assuring that we need to boost in this centric, multipolar world all of our cooperation.
05:27President Nicolás Maduro- We are very willing to, and it's our message to the head of the transition that along with President Nicolás Maduro,
05:37we go together, we work together towards boosting the alliance between Mali and Venezuela.
05:43As we mentioned, we are going through the 49th year of bilateral relations,
05:49and next year we are going to be celebrating the 50th anniversary of our relations, celebrating the mixed joint work table between nations among Venezuelans and Malians.
06:05President Nicolás Maduro- So, without nothing more to say, thank you Minister Abdel Ayer for your visit,
06:14and also to say on behalf of President Nicolás Maduro that Venezuela and Caracas is your home.
06:22Venezuela is the gate, the entrance gate for Africa and Mali in Latin America, and together we are going to keep working together.
06:31So, this week we are going to have a lot of meetings, a lot of contacts, a lot of agreements that we are going to be announcing to the people.
06:39There we go.
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06:43So today, we are going to ask?
06:44Let's go back to the go.
06:45Thank you, wherever you stare at the local market.
06:46Thanks.
06:47Let's go together.
06:49So, all your work,Har maioria, Seth-R
06:51is a pleasure.
06:52Have a great morning wonderful afternoon.
