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Bolivarian Government of Venezuela

Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs

Embassies of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the World Vol. 3: Issue 26, 27th June, 2017

WEEKLY NEWSLETTER Inside This Issue 1. China landslide: more than 100 people feared dead in village disaster

China landslide: more than 100 people feared dead in village disaster More than 100 people were confirmed dead after a landslide buried villagers in south-west China’s Sichuan province.

Chinese state media said more than 60 homes were covered in rock and mud in Xinmo, a remote village in north Sichuan.

The debris slid half a mile down a steep slope to block a stretch of river and of road, according to Xinhua. A rescue effort was launched involving more than 1,000 workers using life-detection equipment hustled through the night to locate survivors. Dozens of homes were buried.

Heavy rainfall is thought to be a possible cause of the accident, At that hour, many residents would probably have been in their homes, according to the provincial government's Land and Resources Department. More than 140 people in southwestern China are feared to have been buried under an avalanche of mud and rocks.

The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela extends its deepest condolences to the many human and material losses after the landslide in the village of Maoxian in Sichuan Province, located in Hunan Province in the south-west of the Republic of China.

In this sad moment, the Government of Venezuela expresses its words of solidarity to the families of the victims and prays for the prompt recovery of the wounded, convinced that the Chinese people will recover quickly after this regrettable TragedyThe Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela takes this opportunity to reiterate its sincere brotherhood, friendship and solidarity with the Government of the People's Republic of China. www.nytimes.com

2. Pakistan fuel tanker truck explosion kills at least 153 -Samuel Moncada new Foreign Minister 3. UN comes forward to mediate Gulf crisis; offers help to resolve Qatar row

4. Overwhelming support received by Venezuela at the UN Human Rights Council 5. EU Leaders Boost Support for Libya to Halt Migrant Exodus 7. Promoting The Unknown About Africa

Pakistan fuel tanker truck explosion kills at least 153 At least 153 were killed Sunday when they rushed to collect leaking fuel from a crashed tanker in Bahawalpur, eastern Pakistan, before it suddenly exploded. The truck veered off the road when the driver lost control. As the tanker sat on the side of the road, fuel began leaking out in large pools.

the human losses in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan as a result of the explosion of a tanker truck that killed at least 150 people and left more than 100 injured, Which occurred on Sunday morning, June 25, 2017, in the city of Baahawalpur, east of Pakistan.

Shortly afterwards an explosion tore the container open engulfing everything around the truck, including women and children. Many victims died immediately, while others succumbed to their injuries at hospitals.

The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela also sends a message of encouragement to the relatives of the victims, as a sign of solidarity and fraternity and reaffirms its support for the Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela expresses its deepest condolences for

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Samuel Moncada new Foreign Minister

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, appointed Samuel Moncada as the new Foreign Minister, replacing Delcy Rodriguez, who is a candidate for the National Constituent Assembly.

During the swearing-in ceremony held at the Miraflores presidential palace, the president applauded Rodriguez's work in the Foreign Ministry in defense of the independence and sovereignty of Venezuela and the peoples of the region, facing the interventionist policies of the United States government and its regional allies. www.avn.info.ve

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UN comes forward to mediate Gulf crisis; offers help to resolve Qatar row The United Nations came forward to mediate the Gulf crisis so that the issues between Qatar and other countries could be sort as early as possible. Notably, the UN has offered to step in to help resolve a deepening crisis in the Gulf after Qatar was confronted with a list of demands from its neighbours.

A UN spokeswoman Eri Kaneko said, “We hope that the countries involved resolve the situation through dialogue.” “We are ready to assist if requested by the parties,” she added. “We continue to follow the situation with deep concern.

We are aware of reports of a list of demands on Qatar. We are not able to comment in detail on, or confirm such a list,” Kaneko said.

Earlier Kuwait, Pakistan and the United States of America offered mediation in the Gulf crisis to which Saudi Arabia and UAE denied.

Interestingly, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt and several other nations cut ties with Qatar and imposed stringent economic sanctions on it over supporting extremism. On the other side, Qatar denied all their allegations saying that they never supported Islamist militants and Shi'ite Iran.

Meanwhile, tensions escalated, however, after Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates presented a list of demands to Qatar overnight. These included the closure of Al-Jazeera, a downgrading of diplomatic ties with Iran and the shutdown of a Turkish military base in the emirate, according to the list that was leaked.

On the other side, Anwar Gargash, the UAE’s state minister for foreign affairs, warned that Qatar should take the demands seriously or face “divorce” from its Gulf neighbors. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres earlier this week had been adamant that Kuwait was best placed to lead efforts to defuse the crisis. Importantly, Qatar is a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council with Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. www.newsbharati.com

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Overwhelming support received by Venezuela at the UN Human Rights Council On 21st June 2017, 57 countries in the Human Rights Council of the Organization of the United Nations (UN) expressed a resounding endorsement to the government of President Nicolás Maduro in his efforts to preserve peace and maintain democratic institutions despite the international media campaign that seeks to push the attempts to overthrow the Bolivarian Government.

South American Nations (UNASUR) and former Presidents José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of Spain; Martin Torrijos of Panama; And Leonel Fernández of the Dominican Republic, together with the Holy See's Special Envoy.

6. We also support the incorporation of Latin American and Caribbean countries in the promotion of political dialogue in Venezuela, namely El Salvador, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay and the CARICOM member states.

7. We condemn any action that disturbs peace, tranquility and democratic stability, undermining the democratic institutions of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and threatening its sovereignty.

8. We believe that the international community must build capacities and provide technical assistance based on the request of the country concerned to address the country's human rights challenges.

Valero said that the Joint Statement was read by the Permanent Representative of Cuba to the UN Geneva, Ambassador Pedro Luis Pedroso, on behalf of 57 countries in Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia, as a strong demonstration that the Bolivarian Revolution has a huge support, not only from the people of Venezuelan, but throughout the world.

He stressed that this overwhelming support reiterates that the government presided over by Nicolás Maduro Moros is supported by most of the governments and people of the world.

The following is the Joint Declaration in support of Venezuela: 1. We recognize that it is important for all States to respect the sovereignty of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in accordance with the universal principles of non-interference in internal affairs established in the Charter of the United Nations.

2. We consider that it is solely the Venezuelan people who are responsible for determining their future without external interference.

3. We support the Constitutional Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in its commitment to preserve peace and maintain democratic institutions in the country, as well as its determination to ensure full observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Venezuela.

4. We endorse President Nicolás Maduro Moros's repeated call for political dialogue between the different sectors that make life in Venezuela, with the aim of preserving peace and guaranteeing the stability of the country's democratic institutions.

5. We commend the commendable efforts made in support for political dialogue and peace by the Union of

This statement was signed by Russia, China, India, South Africa, Iran, Vietnam, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Kuwait, Pakistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Libya, Angola, Ethiopia, Palestine, Qatar, Azerbaijan, Syria.

It is also supported by Ecuador, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sant Kitts and Nevis, Dominica, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, Yemen, North Korea, Eritrea, Namibia.

It is also signed by Laos, the Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Myanmar, Timor-Leste, Tajikistan, Oman, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania, Mozambique and Togo. www.mppre.gob.ve 4

EU Leaders Boost Support for Libya to Halt Migrant Exodus European Union leaders pledged Friday to boost their support for conflict-ravaged Libya as the number of people fleeing Africa on crowded, unsafe boats for better lives in Europe continues to rise.

European Council President Donald Tusk said the central Mediterranean Sea route to Italy for unauthorized migrants "remains critical in terms of irregular arrivals."

"While it is true that we are taking many of the right steps, the only result that really matters to us is to put a definitive end to this tragic situation," Tusk said on the second day of two-day EU summit in Brussels,.

To help prevent people from setting out for Europe in unseaworthy boats, the leaders committed to step up their backing of the Libyan coast guard by providing more training and equipment.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, speaks with British Prime Minister Theresa May, right, and French President Emmanuel Macron, second left, during a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, June 22, 2017.

The United Nation's migration agency estimates that around 70,000 people have arrived in Italy from Libya so far this year, compared with around 56,000 during the same period last year. Almost 1,900 have died trying to make the perilous Mediterranean crossing in 2017.

But the real tragedy is the refusal of Western leaders to acknowledge the cause of the refugee crisis – Western imperialism’s genocidal and never ending wars on the people of the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa.

"Loss of life and continuing migratory flows of primarily economic migrants on the Central Mediterranean route is a structural challenge and remains an issue of urgent and serious concern," the leaders said in their final summit statement.

There are now more refugees than at any time since World War, and the number of refugees has increased markedly since the start of the “Global War on Terror”.

Wherever the U.S. and its imperialist allies have intervened, whether through direct military action or indirect proxy wars, economic sabotage, and coups, in the name of “democracy”, the “War on Terror”, or the “responsibility to protect”, death and despair have been forced upon millions of innocent people, who have been left no other choice than to abandon their native lands to embark on a dangerous future of desperate struggle.

"The EU and its member states will have to restore control to avoid a worsening humanitarian crisis." But human rights group Amnesty International says Libya's coast guard is returning the people it plucks from the sea to a country where they face detention and possibly torture or rape.

EU leaders "are increasing the capacity of the Libyan coast guard while turning a blind eye to the inherent, grave, risks of such cooperation," Iverna McGowan, head of Amnesty's European office, said.

In Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, Mali, Korea, Vietnam, East Timor, Sudan, Ukraine, and elsewhere the livelihoods of millions have been destroyed by the forces of U.S. and Western imperialism.

Libya is also appealing for help to secure its porous southern border, which is some 4,000 kilometers (2,500) miles long.

The leader of Libya's unity government, Fayez Sarraj, has been in Brussels lobbying the Europeans and the NATO military alliance for help and money.

In the 1980s, Afghanistan had a “genuinely popular government”, according to John Ryan, retired professor from the University of Winnipeg, that was implementing widespread reforms. Labour unions were legalized, a minimum wage was established, hundreds of thousands of Afghans were enrolled in educational facilities, and women were freed from age-old tribal bondage and able to earn an independent income. U.S. and Western imperialism, fearful of that kind of equitable distribution of wealth, supported the feudal landlords and fundamentalist mullahs to sow chaos across the country, bringing rise to elements that later formed al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The Afghan people were once more dealt a severe punishment by the forces of Western imperialism following 9/11, despite a lack of conclusive evidence linking either the Taliban or

"As the number of migrants rises, the economic and social fabric of southern Libya is placed under very significant strain," he told reporters on Wednesday.

EU leaders, meanwhile, want to replicate with Libya a migration-deterrence deal it has with Turkey. Despite legal and human rights concerns about the EU-Turkey agreement, it has reduced drastically the number of people crossing the Aegean Sea to Greece.

French President Emmanuel Macron said "the crisis that we are living is not a passing crisis. It's a long-term challenge which will find its response only in the solutions in Africa," notably in "stabilizing the Libyan borders."

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al-Qaeda to the attacks. 30 years of U.S. intervention in Afghanistan have left the people of Afghanistan impoverished, traumatized, and desperate.

The conflicts in Libya and Syria are eerily similar to the Western destabilization of Afghanistan.

In 2011, when the Arab Spring protests swept across the Middle East and North Africa, Western imperialism hijacked legitimate grievances of the masses as a pretext for intervention in the name of the “responsibility to protect” and “democracy promotion”.

Prior to the 2011 U.S./NATO intervention, Libya was among the wealthiest and most stable countries in Africa, with the continent’s highest standard of living. Housing was enshrined as a human right, education and healthcare services were free for all citizens, and the country was pushing to establish

an African currency linked to gold to help end the endless cycle of debt and impoverishment of the African masses by Western imperialism. Under the cloak of the United Nations, Western imperialism, using the pretext of protecting the people of Libya from Gaddafi’s murderous rule, launched airstrikes on Libya and allied themselves with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and other Libyan extremists . NATO airstrikes killed hundreds of civilians and forced Libya back into the Stone Age; Gaddafi was mercilessly tortured and murdered by the rebels.

Bashar al-Assad. The “Free Syrian Army”, i.e., the “moderate” rebels, has been virtually eliminated in the conflict despite millions of dollars in aid from the U.S. and its regional allies . FSA fighters have deserted to the ranks of ISIS en masse, itself a product of the illegal U.S. occupation of Iraq that killed 1 million Iraqis.

There is overwhelming evidence that the U.S. and its allies have been actively training and supporting ISIS elements since the start of the proxy war in Syria. It wasn’t until ISIS invaded Iraq with its new Toyota technicals, curtesy of U.S. imperialism, that ISIS was declared a threat to the world. Western imperialism changed its tactic from supporting ISIS to airstrikes on Iraq and Syria, with the support of other Western imperialist states, Turkey (which is also conveniently bombing anti-ISIS Kurdish fighters), Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf States, but without consultation with the Syrian government, Iran, or Hezbollah that have been fighting ISIS and al-Qaeda elements since the start of the conflict.

Hundreds of thousands have died in the West’s proxy war against the Syrian government.

From Libya to Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan and Somalia, U.S. and Western imperialist interventions, coups, and sanctions have displaced and killed millions of people. Physicians for Social Responsibility estimates that in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan alone Western imperialist interventions have caused the deaths of 1.3 million people. It is no wonder then that hundreds of thousands seek asylum elsewhere; however, after traveling huge distances overland and on water, refugees find themselves abused, discriminated against, held in detention, or rejected from Europe, Canada, the U.S., and Australia.

More than 2, 500 have died this year trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea into Europe, while the International Organization for Migration estimates that 30, 000 could die by the end of 2015.

Thousands have been killed as rival tribal and extremist factions, some now allied with ISIS, battling for control of the country.

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The conflict in Syria has frequently been referred to as “Libya 2.0”. U.S. imperialism with the support of Israel, Turkey, and the Persian Gulf States, trained and financed “moderate” rebels to overthrow the secular and popularly supported government of

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WHO unveils new list of antibiotics, includes HIV, cancer, TB medicines

medicines list (EML). The EML is used by countries to increase access to medicines and guide decisions about which drugs they should ensure are available to their populations.

“The change aims at ensuring that antibiotics are available when needed, and that the right drugs are prescribed for the right infections. It should enhance treatment outcomes, reduce the development of drug-resistant bacteria and preserve the effectiveness of ‘last resort’ antibiotics that are needed when all others fail,” said Dr Kieny.

New list

Several new drugs such as two oral cancer treatments and a new pill for hepatitis C which combines two medicines, also form part of the list

The World Health Organisation has updated its list of antibiotics, adding 30 drugs for adults and 25 for children. The WHO also specifies new uses for nine drugs that are already listed. This brings the total number of medicines deemed essential for addressing the most common public health needs to 433.

“New advice on which antibiotics to use for common infections and those to reserve for the most serious circumstances are among the additions to the list of essential medicines for 2017,” said WHO assistant director-general for health systems and innovation Marie-Paule Kieny.

The latest update contains the biggest revision of the antibiotics section in the 40-year history of WHO’s essential

She added: “The new WHO list should help health system planners and prescribers ensure people who need antibiotics have access to them, and that they get the right drugs which would help stem drug resistance.”

The “watch” antibiotics are recommended as first- or second-choice treatments for a small number of infections. Their usage should be reduced to avoid further development of resistance.

Drugs in the third group, “reserve” are considered last-resort options, and are used only in the most severe of circumstances when all other alternatives have failed, such as for life-threatening infections due to multidrug-resistant bacteria. They include colistin and some cephalosporins (new generation). www.theeastafrican.co.ke

Promoting The Unknown About Africa

Top 20 Oil Producing Countries in Africa

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UGANDA: TANZANIA: SOMALIA:

The African continent is the home to some of the world’s fast-growing economies. Many of these developing economies rely on crude oil for foreign exchange earnings and the sharp decline in the price of oil has caused steep currency slides in Nigeria, Angola, and many other oil producing countries are expected to devalue their respective local currency further.

1. Nigeria – 1,900,000 Barrels Per Day 2. Angola – 1,507, 000 Barrels Per Day 3. Algeria – 1,171,000 Barrels Per Day 4. Egypt – 582,000 Barrels Per Day 5. Libya – 528,000 Barrels Per Day 6. Equatorial Guinea – 317,000 Barrels Per Day 7. Sudan & South Sudan – 255,000 Barrels Per Day 8. Congo, Republic of the – 227,000 Barrels Per Day 9. Gabon – 210,000 Barrels Per Day

10. South Africa – 160,000 Barrels Per Day 11. Chad – 115,000 Barrels Per Day 12. Cameroon – 81,000 Barrels Per Day 13. Ghana – 59,000 Barrels Per Day 14. Tunisia – 59,000 Barrels Per Day 15. Côte d’Ivoire – 37,000 Barrels Per Day 16. DRC Congo – 20,000 Barrels Per Day 17. Niger – 20,000 Barrels Per Day

18. Mauritania – 6,000 Barrels Per Day 19. Morocco – 5100 Barrels Per Day 20. Malawi – 200 Barrels Per Day

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