During the Second Meeting of the Venezuela-Mali Political Consultation Mechanism, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil Pinto highlighted the strengthening of bilateral ties between the two nations, emphasizing 49 years of diplomatic relations and key areas of cooperation such as education (with postgraduate scholarships for Malian students), health, energy, and agriculture. Gil condemned unilateral coercive measures against both countries and reiterated mutual support in international forums, including the Palestinian cause, while positioning Venezuela as Africa's gateway to Latin America, in line with Chávez's integrationist legacy and Maduro's vision of a multipolar world.
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.
06:40Indeed, woah.
06:42There are people for shatterlot Sherlam Maduro that you heavily talk about.
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.
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