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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 (UN Habitat).

Vol. 3: Issue 20, 16th May, 2017

WEEKLY NEWSLETTER Oil prices rise as Saudi and Russia agree to prolong output curbs

Major oil producers are preparing to extend output cuts until March 2018 in a bid to reduce a global supply glut. agreed [to cut] until end of the first quarter 2018 is sending the market a strong signal of their determination in tackling the supply glut... I anticipate prices to consolidate above $50 in the coming weeks."

The energy ministers of OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia and its biggest non-OPEC partner Russia met Monday and agreed to do "whatever it takes to achieve the desired goal of stabilizing the market," Russia's energy ministry said in a statement. OPEC and some non-OPEC producers agreed in December to cut output by 1.8 million barrels per day for six months to help stabilize oil prices. That deal is due to expire at the end of June.

But there's one thing standing in the way of higher prices: U.S. oil production. The number of rigs in operation there has doubled over the past year. In its monthly report last week, OPEC said that global markets are still suffering from oversupply and it appealed to other producers, including the U.S., to stop pumping so much.

The Saudi and Russian ministers said they would lobby other producers to achieve "full consensus" on prolonging the policy of supply restraint at a meeting next week, the ministry added.

World oil prices jumped on Monday, with U.S. crude futures trading 3% firmer at more than $49 a barrel.

The supply cut has helped prices recover from a low of $26 a barrel early last year.

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1. Oil prices rise as Saudi and Russia agree to prolong output 2. China's huge project to reshape world trade Venezuela joins the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

3. Matrix trends of imperialist intervention against Venezuela 5. 72nd Anniversary of the historic Soviet Red Army military victory over Nazi fascism

OPEC tried to put this US shale oil driller out of business. It 'backfired' "The production cut did one sure thing to the oil price which is to put a floor under how low it could go, so in that way OPEC and Russia have been successful," said Ali Hamoudi, CEO at Adaa Financial Services in Dubai. "The fact that they

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President Maduro had earlier in 2016 led talks to cut costs on oil production.

6. Promoting the unknown about Africa

China, Russia and Saudi Arabia economic achievements

China's huge project to reshape world trade

Africa and Europe. It’s one of several steps China has taken to increase its global clout in recent years, which also include pushing a regional trade deal in Asia. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasized OBOR's international credentials.

The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation was held for two days. World leaders from 29 nations as well as 1500 delegates, investors, entrepreneurs, scholars and media from more than 100 countries attended the event. The meeting included Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and presidents or prime ministers from Italy, Hungary, Greece, Kenya and most of China's Asian neighbors. Delegates from African included South Africa and Ethiopia. Officials from the United States and North Korea also attended the international forum. The initiative - a modern Silk Road of trade, investment and infrastructure development is China’s biggest foreign initiative to date.

"What we hope to create is a big family of harmonious co-existence," Xi said, adding that all countries were welcome to take part in the project.Xi announced an additional $124 billion in funding for the OBOR initiative, including loans, grants and $8.7 billion in assistance to developing countries.

According to Chinese state media, some $1 trillion has already been invested in OBOR, with another several trillion due to be invested over the next decade.

Launched nearly four years ago, the plan aims to pump hundreds of billions of dollars into railways, roads, ports and other projects across Asia,

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Venezuela joins the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, on the 23rd March, 2017 informed the public that Venezuela has joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which has more than 70 member countries."Venezuela today officially entered as a full member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank founded by the People's Republic of China," he said this during the inauguration ceremony of the Venezuelan Power Expo 2017 in Caracas.

Maduro stressed that with the country's entry into this bank, Venezuela will have access to financing and technical support for the development of projects in the nation. "Our commissions of work for various routes have been negotiating and working with the People's Republic of China on this entry and this will mean access to financial investment, engineering for development projects for the future Venezuela that merits a large

contingent of financial resources to have infrastructure, public services and roads " he said.

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank was established in 2014 by Chinese President Xi Jinping in an attempt to gain afoot hold in the global financial order, which is dominated by imperial forces, in order to meet part of the financing needs of infrastructure projects in the countries of the continent. In addition to Venezuela, 12countries also joined the Bank: Peru, Afghanistan, Armenia, Fiji, Hong Kong, Timor-Leste, Belgium, Canada, Ethiopia, Hungary, Ireland and Sudan. www.avn.info.ve

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Opinion:

By Ernesto Wong Maestre

Matrix trends of imperialist intervention against Venezuela The Military-Financial-Communications Complex (CMFC, Spanish initials) of the empire, as I have called it in my articles of the last three years, continues to act more strongly against the Venezuelan Revolution (Bolivarian and Chavista by nature) with a threedimensional strategy, that has also been applied to people from countries like Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, Ukraine, Colombia, Libya, Syria, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, among others. The consequences are varied mainly due to the plan implemented by the CMFC, according to the character of the government in power and the type of prevailing political-social system to deepen its hegemony or at least its dominion.

Information Matrices, Speaking Acts and Objectives In the particular case of Venezuela, media matrices could be grouped into two dimensions interconnected by various relationships and links. Some aimed at

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diminishing, hindering or neutralizing the potential and power of the Venezuelan State in its different forms of existence or expression.

Others aimed at strengthening the destabilizing system (potential or in operation) of the Military-Financial-Communications Complex CMFC, which include: a) opposition structures created publicly by the Creole parasitic oligarchy, b) structures for covert operations and / or " False flag" generators of the so-called "false positives" and c) clandestine structures of Colombian mercenaries and paramilitaries and others of different nationalities, prepared to when the order of the empire is issued to execute terrorist actions to seize power or create conditions for an air invasion or over land of the Southern Command of the USA that has more than thirty military bases in Latin American countries with capitalist governments, surrendered and given to the empire, yielding the sovereignty and the independence of its nations. These matrices are fixed in the public opinion through newspaper chains, web pages, social networks, direct messages by cell phone or electronic mail, and by comments in opinion spaces in blogs or web pages.

Matrices and information strategies aimed at reducing Venezuela's potential: a) In Venezuela there is a "crisis" (economic, "humanitarian" and political) that affects "increasingly" the region. This matrix seeks to justify the anti-Venezuelan measures of the OAS, is to legitimize and stimulate the declarations and actions of risk insurers and induces lack effect governments to break or cool diplomatic relations with Venezuela, and create more conditions for military intervention; B) The PSUV participates in armed violence against opposition demonstrations.

g) The "dictatorial government of Maduro" fails to follow the dialogue backed by the Vatican. This political sophistry is aimed both at strengthening the image of the "oppressor" who deserves to be removed from power by force and in diminishing the role of Pope Francis in the peaceful solution that would collapse the coup plan that is foreseen by the Military-Financial-Communications Complex (CMFC).

The reality is that the revolutionary government has acted for more than seventeen years with the most exemplary democracy that has been known in Venezuela because otherwise the majority of the population would support the opposition demonstrators and the President would not have convened the Constituent. If there was no participatory and proactive democracy in Venezuela as a model for many countries in the world, the CMFC would not be forced to incorporate so many lies in its pronouncements to set up opinion matrices against the Venezuelan revolutionary process focused on socialism and in order to illegally empower their Creole lackeys.

This matrix tries to delegitimize the party of government as a legitimate political actor, since it is the party with the largest number of voters in the country; c) The violence unleashed in Venezuela is carried out by the "groups of armed-chavistas". With this fallacious assertion, it is a question of creating confusion around those responsible for the deaths of demonstrators who are executed through counterrevolutionary "covert operations", and for that reason, to lose the social base to the government; d) There are corrupt or drug-related authorities and institutions that will be sanctioned by the United States.

By threatening with illegal sanctions or reprisals, first of all the organs and members of the Bolivarian National Police and Guard, the FANB and the judiciary, and secondly, "those individually responsible" for "criminal repression "with sanctions" of the Venezuelan people and their institutions "and by the" international community ", seeks to eliminate all obstacles to effective implementation of actions aimed at reaching power by de facto; e) With a view to further strengthening the perception and meaning of the symbols of imperial hegemony, its information media omit from reports, speeches, commentaries by social networks and editorial references to the concepts of Bolivarian, Bolivarianism, Chavism, Socialism, and names like Chรกvez, Bolivar or Zamora, or any other patriotic symbol, since in the hybrid war, the battle is also of symbols; f) By linking the "peaceful" demonstrators killed to repressive actions by elite police force, SEBIN and CICPC (who have acted lawfully and with utmost care of armed bands), the aim is to confuse national and global public opinion and also to strengthen the social sector, loyal to the bourgeoisie, the feelings of hatred towards the public institutions of security, justifying with it the murders and crimes committed against those bodies.

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72nd Anniversary of the historic Soviet Red Army military victory over Nazi fascism On the 9th of May, Russian federation Commemorates the 72nd Anniversary of the historic Soviet Red Army military victory over Nazi fascism. A special tribute is given to the more than twenty-five million Soviet soldiers, civilians and popular militias who courageously gave their lives during the heroic prowess of the Great Patriotic War. The world remembers and recognizes the patriotic achievement achieved by the Russian people and recognizes the invaluable gesture of Russia in defence of the peace of humanity, its integrity and its dignity. This date is projected in the historical memory of our generations and those to come, as an example of anti-fascist struggle and of people who do not accept impositions and threats as a way of relating on the international stage.

Today more than ever we are committed to being firm against all the imperial pretensions and the new fascist outbursts that, through the unilateralism, of media campaigns, blockades and economic sanctions, seek to generate instability, violence and chaos, with the aim of Intervene and usurp the sacred sovereignty inherent in the countries.

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ratifies the legacy of Commander Hugo Chavez, who built strategic relations with the Russian Federation, today consolidated by President Nicolรกs Maduro Moros, and has allowed the development of an alliance of historical dimensions with this brother country, respectful of International Law. We thus promote the development of both countries, uniting our people in the pursuit of mutual prosperity and contributing to the construction of a multi-polar and multicentric world, guarantor of international peace and security, and counterbalance the hegemonic imperial powers. www.avn.info.ve 5

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Kenya secures Sh21.9 billion financial assistance from China Kenya secured Sh21.9 billion financial assistance from China for infrastructure development and drought mitigation. The money includes a Sh19.2 billion grant to deepen ties between the two countries. An additional Sh2.2 billion (150million Yuan) is for measures to tackle drought and a further Sh500 million (5million Yuan) for refugees. The deals were agreed during bilateral talks between President Uhuru Kenyatta, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Kequang at the Great Hall of the People.

The talks were on the sidelines of the just-ended Infrastructure International Conference in Beijing, China. Kenya is also angling for part of the Sh870billion China offered developing countries for the multi-billion Silk Road Fund infrastructure development. In turn, the Chinese are enticing Kenya to open her skies. President Xi and Li are seeking partnership in the aviation industry, where Kenya would buy aircraft from China and in return, allow Kenya's registered planes to access its routes.

President Xi is keen to have a comprehensive and strategic relationship with Kenya, as he affirmed his commitment to the conclusion of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). On the commercial front, Uhuru also sought a Sh362billion ($3.59billion) loan for the third phase of the SGR from Naivasha to Kisumu and $161million for the construction of the Western by-pass by the China Roads and Bridges

Corporation signed last year. President Kenyatta urged the two leaders to accelerate the issuance of the loans sought from China's EXIM Bank to facilitate the completion of the projects. "The bank should fast-track the process of the loans," Uhuru said. Xi and Li said China supports the projects, though the request would be processed in normal terms once National Treasury puts in a formal request.

Subsequently, President Kenyatta in reinforcing his resolve to see the SGR through Kampala and Kigali, Rwanda, informed the two leaders that he had spoken with Yoweri Museveni (Uganda) and Paul Kagame (Rwanda) about the matter and how they can collaborate.

"We have spoken and agreed to send a joint team to China to negotiate on the financial aspect," he said. President Xi and Li also reciprocated by confirming they would set up a team to discuss the matter with the East Africa officials upon their arrival. President Kenyatta invited Xi to come witness the inauguration of the SGR project, which he expressed his willingness to grace but due to other commitments, promised to send his special envoy, two ministers and one vice minister to the inaugural ride of the rail, to be commissioned on May 31 in Mombasa. "I am very supportive of the project. It will connect Africa, Asia and Europe," said Xi. www.standardmedia.co.ke

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