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).
WEEKLY VOL. NEWSLETTER 1: ISSUE. 39, 23rd December 2015
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Inside this Issue!
Christmas greetings Pg 2. CommuniquĂŠ from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Pg 3. 30,000 new pensions approved for people with disabilities Pg 4. Venezuela climate negotiator pays tribute to Hugo Chavez legacy Pg 5. Venezuela's Perla field among top five world gas development projects Pg 1.
BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA VICE PRESIDENCY OF SOVEREIGNTY POLITICS, SECURITY AND PEACE COMMUNIQUÉ The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela expresses its strongest condemnation of US foreign policy, which through its judicial and police terrorism by national agencies and through global media campaigns, continues to chase, threaten and coerce the exercise of Venezuelan Public Power. Through Reuters, there has been a diffusion of news of an alleged criminal investigation opened against one of the highest officials of the Republic, the Commander of the National Guard, Major General Nestor Reverol, whose responsibility is just drug control with actions whose success have been remarkable. Under the management of this high Venezuelan official the most conspicuous achievements in the control and prevention of the nefarious business of illicit drug have been made. It is no secret to the international community, the use of artificial double standards by US agencies on widely sensitive issues, which, under the proposed fight against drug trafficking which damages health, deploys interventionist actions that violate the sovereignty of nationals. Venezuela is a country recognized by specialized academic agencies and the United Nations in preventing and combating this transnational crime, despite having never fallen into the centrifuge of production of crops and drugs, an issue that the United States of America can hardly claim in moral highness, which instead of reducing the crime, has led to its dangerous increase worldwide, to scandalous levels, as shown in the case of Afghanistan during the decade of the American invasion, which went from producing illicitly, ten percent of the world's opium to ninety percent. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela demands that the Government of the United States adjusts its procedures in international law, avoiding manipulations which will surely obey secondary interests outside the safe and proper legal response to crime. www.mppre.gob
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30,000 new pensions approved for people with disabilities The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, announced on Tuesday 11th of December, 2015 the approval of 30,000 new pensions for people with functional diversity through the Great Jose Gregorio Hernandez Mission, a social policy of the Revolution for care of people with disabilities. "With this approval we are responding directly to the proposals and desire of these compatriots, and we are also anticipating that next year we will have a majority of opposition which has always refused to approve resources for the people," the Venezuelan president said from the presidential palace in Miraflores Caracas, during the broadcast of his 51st television program “In Touch with Maduro”. The head of state urged the deepening of visibility and inclusion of people with disabilities.
countries that have achieved higher rates of social equality and high human development, according to the latest report released by the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP).
In Venezuela there are more than three million people with pensions.
The president stressed that after the electoral defeat last December 6, where the Venezuelan opposition won a majority in the National Assembly (AN) for the legislative session that starts in 2016, the Government and people must defend what has been achieved during 16 years of the revolutionary process led by Hugo Chavez, before the national and international right wing undermine these achievements.
In transmission of Venezolana de Television, Maduro said that despite the economic war, plans and actions of destabilization of the right wing and low sale price of a barrel of oil, the State has promoted social policies to guarantee the rights of the people. In this context, he welcomed the fact that Venezuela managed to be ranked in the list of
Taking into account social and economic variables, Venezuela is in position 71 of the global Human Development Index (HDI), above Latin American countries like Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. With large missions of the revolution, we have achieved this high level of human development. And we will continue to ensure education, culture, health, wage and pension increases, with oil at 30 and 40 (dollars), despite the attacks of the imperialists. ‘‘How am I going to do it? Working, managing, investing, maintaining each plan, " said Maduro.
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Venezuela Climate Negotiator Pays Tribute to Hugo Chavez’s Legacy Venezuela’s chief climate negotiator plans to visit the tomb of former President Hugo Chavez as an homage to his important groundwork to push the world towards a stronger climate deal, Reuters reported on Sunday 13th December 2015.
Salerno was responsible for drafting the preamble of the international climate agreement, adopted by nearly 200 nations, which includes mention of human rights, Indigenous people, gender equality, and respect for nature.
“We’re here because of him,” Venezuelan U.N. negotiator Claudia Salerno told Reuters in Paris as COP21 wrapped up with a deal many civil society organizations slammed for condemning future generations to disastrous global warming but global leaders celebrated as “historic.”
Salerno hailed the preamble of the deal as “revolutionary.”
Chavez was among the strongest critics, along with other leaders of left-wing Latin American governments, in the outcome of the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009. Many critics saw Copenhagen as a lost cause for its failure to reach a legally binding climate deal. Chavez slammed the negotiations for falling far to short of the necessary emissions reduction commitments from rich countries to stem rapid global warming.
Salerno’s forward-looking preamble is a testament to how many Latin American countries are in the front line of pushing for stronger action on climate change with respect for human rights and based on the framework of climate justice. “For the first time we have this sense that finally, our paranoia has disappeared,” Salerno said earlier this week as delegates in Paris approached a final deal.
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Venezuela's Perla field among top five world gas development projects The Perla field project, developed in the Gulf of Venezuela by Spain's Repsol and Italy's ENI, in association with the South American country, was recognized in the December 2015 issue of Offshore magazine as one of the top five offshore projects in the world.
The project began operations in July this year and currently produces 500 million cubic feet of gas per day. In a second phase, it expects to reach a production level of 800 million cubic feet of natural gas per day, according to a PDVSA press release.
The ranking took into account the size of the project, innovation in production methods, application of technology, safety, environmental protection and implementation of the project.
The Rafael Urdaneta Project, led by the Bolivarian government, aims to generate the necessary production to meet the growth in demand for natural gas and condensates in the electricity, petrochemical, industrial and refining sectors, especially in the western part of the country.
With a volume in the subsoil of over 17 trillion cubic feet of gas, Perla field is part of Cardon IV gas block of the Rafael Urdaneta project, sponsored by state oil company PDVSA, and is considered the largest gas discovery in Latin America, marking a milestone in the nation's history of gas.
Furthermore, this is part of the policy of full oil sovereignty, legacy of leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chavez. www.avn.info.ve
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