Bolivarian Government of Venezuela
Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs Office of The Deputy Minister for Africa
Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Kenya Concurrent to Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Somalia
Permanent Mission of Venezuela to the United Nations Environment programme (UNEP)and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (ONU Habitat).
weeklynewsletter VOL. 1 15th JUNE 2015 ISSUE. 13
The Bolivarian Government reaffirms commitment to the South-South integration
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Johannesburg, 15th June, 2015(MPPRE) .The Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela for Africa, Reinaldo Bolivar, met with senior African leaders during the celebration of the XXV Summit of the African Union in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela that was honored in 2005 by the member countries of the African Union for membership as a Non African observer state of this multilateral organization, participated with the representation of the vice minister who in addition to expanding the ties of cooperation and friendship among States had the chance to deliver a speech to those present. Reinaldo Bolivar with the objective to strengthen diplomatic relations between the nations of the South had the opportunity to meet with the Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, who also chairs the African multilateral body in this new period. He said that the African leader was pleased with the Government and people of Venezuela and reiterated his support and solidarity with the revolutionary cause currently being led in the Bolivarian nation. The vice minister, said that the Venezuelan delegation attended the meeting with the sovereign pride of being part of these integration mechanisms, in addition to delivering a message from President Nicolas Maduro and the Bolivarian people that highlights the main theme of the Summit entitled "Women's Empowerment and the development of an agenda towards Africa 2063". After the summit, Bolívar thanked the African countries for their support and solidarity that they gave the Venezuelan nation following the unilateral sanctions of the Department of State that classified it as an unusual and extraordinary threat to the US foreign policy.
He said that he held important meetings with Presidents and Prime Ministers among which he highlighted a meeting with the South African President Jacob Zuma and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of that country in order to "renew the friendship between the two countries." He also met with the Presidents of Burkina Faso, Kenya, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Sahrawi, foreign ministers of Seychelles, Comoros, the latter who thanked Venezuela for the educational cooperation it has granted these countries, reiterating the intention of wanting to further strength ties at the highest level between the Parties. "Africa knows the situation of Venezuela and they have said that they are always following positively our Bolivarian Revolution which they know thanks to the Eternal President Hugo Chavez who was very dear to them," said Bolivar. Moreover, the Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the African Union, Luis Mariano Joubertt said that this participation translates into a significant opportunity since it rises to higher levels the relationship between Bolivar's homeland and our sister nations of Africa. "We comply with the expectations that we had set for us from the moment we decided to attend the summit," said the diplomatic representative of Venezuela. / Ronald Gomez www.mppre.gob.ve
1. The Bolivarian Government reaffirms commitment to the South-South integration 2. Venezuela was recognized by FAO for its fight against hunger 4. Venezuela thanks CELAC and the EU for solidarity against USA decree - European Social Movements Express Support for Latin America 5. Venezuela rejects interventionist statements UN commissioner - Canaima National Park celebrates 53rd Anniversary of creation.
Venezuela recognized by FAO for its fight against hunger The Executive Vice President, Jorge Arreaza, confirmed yesterday that the country has not moved away from meeting its social goals. "During the last three years of economic warfare and high-intensity political warfare against the Revolution, nothing and no one has managed to move us away from our objectives and goals, especially the social objectives and goals," assured the Venezuelan official speaking on the occasion the recognition granted to the country for the progress in the fight to eradicate hunger, prize awarded by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome, Italy. Arreaza highlighted that, for the commander Hugo Chavez, FAO "always constituted a space of great importance and relevance for the Bolivarian Revolution because the fight against hunger, the ceaseless struggle to ensure food for all our citizens is one of the guidelines and fundamental standards." As he said, "In recent years, the Bolivarian Revolution has achieved to fairly distribute the wealth generated by allocating 62% of our income to social investment." He also pointed out that "to ensure full exercise of the right to food, in the last 10 years we have invested more than 142 billion dollars in the Food Mission; since 2003, more than 25 million tones of basic food stuff have been distributed." He noted that the Feeding Houses "serve 435,000 Venezuelan daily" since "the million beneficiaries who originally required this program, many are out of extreme poverty and have moved on to other modes of the Feeding Mission, like the Mercal house to house�.
"HIGH FOOD SECURITY" Among other achievements, the vice president said that "in the system of Bolivarian schools breakfast, lunch and snacks with healthy, balanced meals are offered to more than 4 million children in more than 22 thousand education centers throughout Venezuela." Arreaza said the prevalence of undernourishment in Venezuela, in 1998, was 21%, "the highest in its history", but "with the Feeding Mission and the agricultural production policies of the Revolution, by 2010 we had achieved the Millennium Goal reducing that index to 3.83%, placing us in the range of high food security in accordance with the FAO." Between 1990 and 2015, "Venezuela decreased in 79.2%, almost 80%, the rate of prevalence of undernourishment. Child malnutrition has decreased by 57% from 8% to 3.3%. According to the World Health Organization, several years have gone by that malnutrition in Venezuela is not a public health problem." Arreaza explained that the caloric intake is 2,720 calories per day, "a level that the FAO qualifies as full food sufficiency". According to the spokesman, "the consumption of protein, grains, 2
conti. calcium and fruit during the decade of the 80s and 90s was a privilege of the rich, and it has become a right of all men and women in Venezuela�. REFLECTIONS The Vice President said that the data from the latest FAO report "indicates that we have made progress in the fight against hunger, but we still have a long way to go and that we must definitely accelerate the pace." He recalled that we are speaking of 795 million people who "chronically undernourished", which he described as "a still unacceptable figure before the technological developments and capabilities that should be devoted exclusively to generate the necessary food for all human beings in our motherland".
While noting that the prevalence of undernourishment in America was reduced to less than 5% in 2014, "27 million are still too many." However, he said that reducing it from 58 million to 27 million " had to do, no doubt, with the battles that in our country we are fighting and winning against neoliberalism". According Arreaza, "not only have we managed that millions of Latin Americans no longer suffer the scourge of hunger, but the end that our people have put to neoliberal policies we prevent tens of millions more from entering into the statistics and suffering of exclusion, poverty, hunger, death in life." As for Venezuelan history, he stressed that "the phenomenon of the oil rentier" brought as a consequence "the most unfair, unequal, unusual, inhuman and perverse distribution of wealth among our compatriots", since "the parasitic elite of the importers and unproductive bourgeoisie, were becoming richer, accumulated capital and privileges." He said that between 2001 and 2002, "we witnessed the beginning of the economic war, trying to create the conditions to snatch the power from the people and give it back to the oligarchy" with actions like "coups, oil sabotage, shortage and induced inflation, attacks on the image of the Venezuelan economy in world markets, psychological through the major national and international media campaigns. "
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Venezuela thanks CELAC and the EU for solidarity against USA decree The President of the Republic, Nicolas expressed this Wednesday 10th June, his appreciation to the countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), and the European Union (EU), who are gathered in the 2nd Brussels summit, for the approval of a paragraph that will be expressed in the Final Statement, in rejection of the US decree that declares Venezuela as an “unusual and extraordinary threat” . “60 countries have unanimously approved a paragraph in solidarity with Venezuela within the official statement, requesting President Obama for the repeal of the decree against Venezuela, and that is something that will surely happen,” stressed the Head of State during a contact with the “Con el Mazo Dando” (Hitting with the Hammer) program.
He also extended his thanks to the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, for his strong stand against the interference by former right wing presidents in the country, and to the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, for the speech he gave at said summit, in favor of the equality of peoples and social justice. “This speech outlined the path for the next 30 years on what it should be our Americas and its relationship with Europe to build equality, to combat poverty and inequality, and to assume the right peoples have to health, to work, to a decent wage, ” detailed the National President.
He said that the approval of the countries of CELAC and EU allowed to disassemble the lobby that was wanted to me made at that meeting against the country. “That paragraph that was approved there, is really of a surprising extent, because there were some people who wanted to get to the CELAC by lobbying, and what has happened is that Venezuela is supported http://www.rnv.gob.ve and rooted there.” ..............................................................
European Social Movements Express Support for Latin America As Latin American, Caribbean and European leaders gather in Brussels ahead of the EU-CELAC conference, a parallel People’s Summit begins Wednesday 10th June in the Belgian capital, demonstrating the broad scope of solidarity between the regions.
The people are rising up to reclaim what is theirs. They realize that an alternative exists to the neoliberal perspective of the crisis and feel the necessity of sharing experiences and join forces in the fight,” the organizers said in a statement.
intellectual’s event followed by a People’s Summit involving lectures, debates and round-table discussions. Themes of the dialogues will include climate change, free trade agreements, and global mass media power. Another highlight of the event is the solidarity march for Venezuela on Wednesday. The event will close on Thursday with a rally with high profile guests from Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe.
The solidarity events kick off with an intellectual’s event
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Under this year’s theme of Constructing Alternatives, the People’s Summit will see social movements celebrate social progress in Latin America with more than 1,500 people registered to take part from at least 40 countries.
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Venezuela rejects interventionist statements UN commissioner The Permanent Representation of Venezuela to the United Nations, firmly rejected the interfering statements made by Stephany Dujarric, spokesman for the Secretary General who expressed to be “seriously concerned about the legality� of judicial proceedings in Venezuela and the respect of human rights in the nation. Venezuela expresses its firm rejection to this statement made in the name of the High Commissioner for Human Rights as such a statement is a direct violation of the principles of the United Nations Charter in which this seat is obliged to be an objective, and impartial. These Declarations made by the spokesperson of the Secretary General weaken the institutional credibility of the Human Rights Counsel as the office prejudges the institutional actions taken by a member country of the organization.
Venezuela reiterates its permanent disposition to keep a constructive dialogue based on respect through the corresponding channels in order to contribute to the promotion of human rights around the world. www.hoyvenezuela.info
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Canaima National Park celebrates 53rd Anniversary of creation. that year, with an area of three million hectares under management the MINEA (Spanish acronym for Ministry of Environment) through Inparques (Institute of National Parks). In this national park, it is located the largest waterfall known as "Angel Falls" of almost 1000 meters height, from where the breathtaking landscapes that characterize this protected area are As part of the actions promoted observed. by the Bolivarian Government to ensure the preservation of natural resources in Cultural Heritage protected areas, the Canaima National In 1994, the Canaima National Park, located in Bolivar State, held on Park was named a World Heritage Friday June 12, 53 years of space Site by UNESCO, because its unique renovated and in good condition. and special landscape. The tepuy, are a kind of plateaus of millions Canaima was established as years old, with nearly vertical walls National Park by Decree No. 770, of June and flat tops. The best known are 12, 1962, published in the Official Mount Roraima, the tallest and Gazette No. 26 000 873, dated June 13 of easiest to climb around the park,
and the Auyantepui, the most visited, because in it is located the highest waterfall of the world Angel Falls. The Bolivarian Government guarantees the preservation of the National Park System, in accordance with the provisions of the 5th historic objective of the plan of the Homeland 2013-2019, which raises the salvation of the human species and the planet's life, under the ecosocialist model, for present and future generations. www.hoyvenezuela.info
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