In the Simón Bolívar Room, of the Miraflores Palace, seat of Government, and in the presence of both leaders, the documents were signed as a result of the III Joint Integration Commission between the two countries, which met for two days in this capital .
The memorandums of understanding covered areas such as the restitution of cultural heritage assets; education, cooperation in justice, academic, gas and hydrocarbon matters; health training; mining; trade; and commercial strengthening.
It also included an agreement between the ABI and AVN press agencies; in air services and reliability of information between gas companies.
In the act, the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, delivered to his Bolivian counterpart, Luis Arce, the replica of the saber from the Battle of Carabobo. Arce thanked the affection and hospitality of the Venezuelan people and assured that the strengthening of bilateral ties embodied in the agreements reached after several days of work by the ministers and technical teams “marks the restart of our relations.”
Bolivia, he meant, has always been a grateful people who have known how to work and recognize the generosity and solidarity, above all, of the sister Republic of Venezuela, he said.
He expressed that in this context and, with the broadest spirit that his country has to improve the integration of Latin America, to “build that great homeland that we crave and yearn for,” this step is a grain of sand to advance in such a great undertaking. to achieve the dream of El Libertador and many.
He celebrated that the agreements are the starting points for relations between his government and that of Venezuela, and asserted that they will continue working to also achieve integration in communications and air transport so that Caracas feels that it has a great ally.
Maduro referred to the 13 cooperation documents and noted “they must be carefully cared for and worked on” closely by his government, and recommended adding them to the agenda of each minister and company that they just signed.
More than memorandumS, he affirmed, they are documents of commitments signed between our peoples, to launch a new growing stage of joint work and integration.
We, he told Arce, have to be the guarantee that now we are going to move forward without stopping and weave the network in the spirit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Trade Treaty of the Peoples and the Community of States Latin American and Caribbean.
With the aim, he stressed, of continuing to build a new world, an alternative to savage neoliberal capitalism.
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