Executive Vice-president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, held on Thursday an important working meeting with Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif, to continue strengthening the high-level, strategic, solidarity-based cooperation relations that they have consolidated in the last years amid the U.S. blockade imposed on the two countries.
Venezuela’s and Iran’s representatives held a virtual meeting to discuss the progress made in comprehensive cooperation projects in areas such as energy, health, agriculture and food, and to talk about Iran’s scientific developments in the fight against COVID-19 and the experience shared by the two countries in facing the illegal unilateral coercive measures imposed by the U.S.
By early August this year, Venezuela and Iran celebrated the 70th anniversary of their diplomatic relations.
In a statement dated August 9, President Nicolás Maduro highlighted that in seven decades, the two countries “have built a fruitful bilateral relation, which has been strengthened by the patriotic resistance in the defense of their peoples’ sovereignty, forging an unbreakable bond of brotherhood.”