In order to review the cooperation agenda between the Venezuelan State and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Venezuelan Vice-minister for Multilateral Affairs Daniela Rodríguez held a meeting on Tuesday with the UNHCR representative Enrique Vallés-Ramos.
Venezuela’s Executive Vice-president Delcy Rodríguez headed on Tuesday an important coordination meeting ahead of the visit the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, Alena Douhan, will pay from February 1 to 12.
The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry endorsed on Tuesday a framework cooperation agreement with the National Association of Counselors for the Protection of Children and Adolescents (Asonacop) to strengthen cooperation in the protection of Venezuelan children and adolescents overseas.
The Minister of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs, Jorge Arreaza, handed on Tuesday a Note of Protest to the Chargé d’Affaires of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, Robert McKenzie, rejecting the defamation and false accusations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation about the non-authorized incursion of Guyanese fishing vessels illegally operating in Venezuela’s jurisdictional waters and the detention of their crew members by the Bolivarian National Navy.
The Minister of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs, Jorge Arreaza, held a meeting on Monday with members of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST in Portuguese) and the International People’s Assembly to strengthen Venezuela’s cooperation with the people of the world amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Vice-minister for Africa of Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry, Yuri Pimentel, held a meeting on Monday with the Ambassador of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Mohamed Salerm Daha, to discuss issues related to the defense of the Sahrawi cause.
The Vice-minister for Multilateral Affairs of Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry, Daniela Rodríguez, and Ombudsman Alfredo Ruiz held a meeting on Monday to strengthen joint efforts for the multilateral defense of human rights in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the guarantees to respect the human rights of the Venezuelan people.
On Monday, the Presidential Commission for the Defense of the Essequibo held a meeting headed by Venezuela’s Executive Vice-president Delcy Rodríguez to continue debating the agenda on the territorial dispute over the Atlantic Coastline.
As representative of the Mission of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United Nations in Geneva, Arline Díaz Mendoza denounced on Monday that the unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States against the South American nation have been the main cause of the migration of Venezuelans, who have been victims of exclusion in receiving countries.
“Understanding the need of summoning the Bolivarian ideal to promote relations of solidarity, exchange and cooperation among the peoples of the world to build true peace and justice, Venezuela and the Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity among Peoples joined the international campaign to formally nominate the Henry Reeve International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disasters and Serious Epidemics for the Nobel Peace Prize,” said on Monday Carlos Ron, president of the Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity among Peoples, at a heartfelt event held in Casa Amarilla Antonio José de Sucre, headquarters of Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry in Caracas.
The Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced on Sunday the creation of a $2 million fund to procure vaccines and treatments against COVID-19 for the member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America- People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP).
On Tuesday, January 19, the Social Council of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) held a meeting to coordinate efforts to guarantee member countries a massive, free access to the vaccine against COVID-19 and other medicines.