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Permanent Mission of Venezuela to the United Nations Environment programme (UNEP)and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme ( UN Habitat). VOL. 2: ISSUE. 12 4th April 2016
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Pg 2. Venezuela, India boost economic cooperation
Pg 3. Prime Minister of Guinea Bissau arrives in Venezuela to strengthen cooperation
Pg 4. Homeland Congress, an instrument of participation and involvement of the People
Pg 5. Maduro qualified amnesty law as aberrant and criminal and calls for a national debate
Pg 6. Maduro: The peace of our beloved Colombia is the peace of South America
Venezuela, India boost economic cooperation
Caracas, 30 Mar. AVN.- India offered its cooperation to Venezuela to boost the 14 engines of the Bolivarian Economic Agenda launched by Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, to build a new production model in the country. During a meeting held Wednesday in Caracas between Vice President, Aristobulo Isturiz, and Indian ambassador, Rahul Shrivastava, it was agreed to reinvigorate the Joint Commission, created by the two countries under administration of President Hugo Chavez. Isturiz said that both countries have been working on an agenda to be developed during Venezuelan delegation's next visit to India, "where the current commission –named by President (Hugo) Chavez to effectively track the agreements– will be reactivated." The vice president stressed the two countries has strengthened cooperation. "India has given us a backup as for medicines," and has also been working on strengthening national plants to produce medicines that "contribute to substitute imports quickly and decisively," said Isturiz. He added that this relaunching of relations is of great importance in the economic and geopolitical areas, because "it is up to us to assume the presidency of the non-aligned countries, while India has the presidency of the Brics." For its part, the Indian ambassador to Venezuela, Rahul Shrivastava, stressed that his country has full intention "to participate in all sectors, from agriculture to technology" for the promotion of a new productive economic model in Venezuela. www.avn.info.ve 2
Prime Minister of Guinea Bissau arrives in Venezuela to strengthen cooperation
The Prime Minister of Guinea Bissau, Carlos Correira, arrived on Thursday to Venezuela to meet an official visit to the country that will last until April 5, and which has as a goal to strengthen the cooperation ties between the two nations. Correira was welcomed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Delcy Rodríguez; the Deputy Minister for Africa, Reinaldo Bolívar, and a delegation of Venezuelan diplomats. After welcoming Correira, the Chancellor of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguez, reported on part of the agenda scheduled for this official visit, on which is expected that the delegation of Guinea Bissau will hold meetings with the portfolios of Defense and Communication. In addition, Rodriguez said that will be held a “meeting of political consultation, and the inauguration of the Centre for African Knowledge”. “With our African brothers we highlight, exalt and deepen bonds of friendship and cooperation,” said Delcy Rodríguez. www.rnv.gob.ve
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Homeland Congress, an instrument of participation and involvement of the People
From this Friday starts off the April, May and June of activation, deployment, multiplication and organization of the Homeland Congress, as a major instrument of participation and involvement of all the people of Venezuela in order to overcome the economic war and the attacks by the right wing, as said on Wednesday night the President of the Republic, Nicolas Maduro, from Miraflores Palace in Caracas. After completing a working session with the team coordinating the Homeland Congress, the Head of State stressed that are noting the ample nature of the Homeland Congress, which starts with new force since this Friday, April 1. He noted that the Revolution “Goes with a firm pace, very aware of what we are, and giving the chest and face to the early dawning sun of April”. He reported that they have been working from the 19 committees of the Homeland Congress, on which was made a wide called nationwide, in order to incorporate new compatriots in the defense of the Revolution.
The also President of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela recalled that the Homeland Congress has an activation agenda for April 13 and 14, in which will be made a national meeting of all columns, patriotic and revolutionary sectors that make up the Homeland Congress 2016, on which will be activated the Economic Plan to defeat the economic war. He reiterated that the second quarter of 2016 must be to gain ground in the economic recovery, in the attention of the people, in alleviating some of the problems that have accumulated as a result of the downfall in oil prices and the economic war, ‘‘Creating conditions for the 14 engines to go generating a new cycle of growth, of expansion of the new production forces to free ourselves from oil and its dependence, without abandoning the recovery of the oil market”. www.rnv.gob.ve
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Maduro qualified amnesty law as aberrant and criminal and calls for a national debate The President of the Republic, Nicolas Maduro, qualified on Wednesday as “abhorrent and criminal” the Amnesty Law, while convened a great national debate to discuss the serious consequences of such text approved by the parliamentary right wing this Tuesday. “Yesterday they approved, at a second reading, a law that never ever had been approved in Venezuela, called by them as “Amnesty…”, and it is the most criminal (law) that has been ever approved in the country (…) I call for a great national debate in all Community Councils, in the universities, for our people to open their eyes on the abhorrent and criminal law passed by the National Assembly yesterday”, said the Venezuelan head of state from the Ezequiel Zamora Park, also known as “El Calvario”, located in Caracas. “I wonder if that law of criminal impunity (is the one that) will lead us to consolidate peace and the recovery of Venezuela (…) Who does this law benefits?, To the people of Venezuela, or to those who ordered to kill it in 2014?” said Maduro. Meanwhile, the head of the Parliamentary Homeland Bloc, Hector Rodriguez, said the Venezuelan right wing in the Assembly “Has not made a single useful proposal for the Venezuelans, what they have done all these months is fighting to get their thugs, murderers and corrupt out (of prison)”. “What they have done is not to defend the people’s interests, but taking their corrupt people out of prison, but they will remain imprisoned” stressed Rodriguez. www.rnv.gob.ve
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Maduro: The peace of our beloved Colombia is the peace of South America
The President of the Republic, Nicolas Maduro, met on Wednesday with delegations of the Government of Colombia and representatives of the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Miraflores Palace, as part of the formal agreement signed earlier at the Yellow House (Seat of the Chancellory) in Caracas, to advance in the peace negotiations with the Neo-Ganadine country. “We have welcomed at office one in Miraflores to the delegations of the Government of Colombia and the ELN (…) this is a day of good news for the peace of South America (…) for our beloved Colombia (…) I have ratified them all the: moral, political, ethical, human support of the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela to these processes of understanding and construction of the path to peace in Colombia”, said the President in a broadcast by Venezolana de Television. He congratulated Colombia and President Juan Manuel Santos for being a “persistent seeker of peace” and ratified to him once again, “the full support of Venezuela”. “It’s been difficult, there have been several years of talks (…) Hopefully, with the blessing of God and the Liberator, sooner rather than later we will have the good news of the signing of the peace agreement,” concluded the President. www.rnv.gob.ve
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