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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 23, 5th June, 2017

WEEKLY NEWSLETTER Inside This Issue 1. Venezuela calls for elections on the 30th of July

Venezuela calls for Elections on the 30th of July 2017 The Sectorial and territorial elections, for National Constituent Assembly, will be held on the same day.

More than 55,000 Venezuelans were nominated as candidates for the Constituent Assembly convened by Maduro.

The National Electoral Council (NEC) reported yesterday 4th of June,2017 that, 55,314 Venezuelans were nominated as candidates to participate in the Constituent Assembly, convened by President NicolĂĄs Maduro.

The NEC President, Tibisay Lucena, reported that, by the territorial modality, 19,876 applicants were registered, while, by the sectoral modality, there were 35,438 registered candidates. She stressed that the number of Venezuelans to participate in the process is high, considering that only 545 will be elected.

2. United States abandons the Paris Accord -Terror attack at London Bridge

"We have had record registrations," Lucena said, explaining that, on average, there are 828 candidates in the country. Likewise, the Venezuelan official announced that on Monday, the National Electoral Board will submit to the NEC the proposal of July 30, as the date for holding the elections of the National Constituent Assembly, for both modalities.

She recalled that, from now on, Venezuelans who aspire to participate in the Constituent Assembly, should start collecting signatures and that, for this, they can download the forms available on the website of the electoral body. The NEC celebrated the number of women registered as candidates.

Source: Chavez Vive

3. International support for the Diplomacy of Peace in Venezuela 4. Open letter 6. Convocation of Constituent is Legal

7. Promoting The Unknown About

International News

United States abandons the Paris Accord On the 1st June 2017, President Donald Trump announces that he will withdraw the United States from the landmark 2015 global agreement to fight climate change, a move that fulfilled a major campaign pledge but drew condemnation from U.S. allies and business leaders.

Trump, tapping into the "America First" message he used when he was elected president last year, said the Paris accord would undermine the U.S. economy, cost U.S. jobs, weaken American national sovereignty and put the country at a permanent disadvantage to the other countries of the world.

Supporters of the accord called Trump's move a blow to international efforts to curb the warming of the planet that threatens far-reaching consequences for this century and beyond. Former President Barack Obama expressed regret over the pullout from a deal he was instrumental in brokering. www.yahoo.com .....................................................................

Terror attack at London Bridge Seven people were killed and dozens more injured in a "brutal terrorist attack" in London Saturday night after assailants used a vehicle to plow into pedestrians on London Bridge and attacked others with knives in nearby Borough Market, officials said.

"We extend our condolences to the British Government and relatives of the victims, and we wish the wounded to recover quickly," said the head of the Venezuelan Diplomacy through her Twitter account.

Three suspects were shot and killed in the wake of the carnage and all were wearing fake suicide belts, police said. A total of 50 rounds were fired, and one bystander was hit by bullets, police said."There is far too much tolerance of extremism in our country," U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said at a press conference Sunday morning, calling the carnage a "brutal terrorist attack."

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Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez condemned the double terrorist attack in London on Saturday and expressed her solidarity with the British people in the event, which resulted in the deaths of several people and dozens injured.

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International Support for Venezuela’s Diplomacy of Peace Venezuela chairs the Fourth United Nations Commission on Decolonization

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela was elected to preside over the Fourth United Nations Commission on Decolonization, a space where the oppressed people of the world have been demanding their independence.

Our country obtained an absolute majority, with 95.6% of the votes made, which shows the true support for the efforts being made by the Bolivarian Government in favor of the Pluripolar World.

Cuban Parliament expresses its support for the Government of Venezuela and rejects escalation of violence by the right

Through a communiqué, the National Assembly of People's Power of the Republic of Cuba expressed its support for the decisions taken by the legitimate Government of Venezuela "under the escalating wave of internal violence and international intervention facing the country."

The communiqué states that "oligarchic sectors have tried to spread chaos throughout the country with the same methods used by terrorists. In the name of false values of democracy and human rights, they have destabilized the country and made dozens of Venezuelan families to mourn."

They also urge lawmakers and parliaments of the world to maintain "solidarity with Venezuela, the country of our America, with the confidence that the revolution and the Bolivarian people are treated with wisdom." www.mre.gob.ve

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Venezuela triumphs in the OAS On the 31st of May 2017, the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) reached a consensus in which they expressed their support for the dialogue mediated by UNASUR between the government and the opposition in Venezuela.

The Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Mexico to the OAS, Luis Alfonso de Alba Góngora, stressed that every state has the right to choose its political system without interference.

Satisfied Ecuador The Government of Ecuador expressed its satisfaction with the text approved by the OAS on Venezuela. "We welcome the decision of the Permanent Council of the OAS, agreed by consensus of the 34 countries in favor of dialogue, without sanctions or threats of any kind and recognizing the full sovereignty of Venezuela," said the Ecuadorian foreign minister, Guillaume Long.

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He affirmed that the declaration "is an example of the power of dialogue upon confrontation" and indicated that the Ecuadorian Government will continue supporting the process of dialogue sponsored by the UNASUR. The Secretary General of the Organization of American States Luis Almagro, requested for the start of the initiation of the Democratic Charter of the Organization against Venezuela, an action that cannot be carried out because there is no punitive dimension, says Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodríguez. www.telesurtv.net

Open Letter From Africa, the Cradle of Humanity, we are, we defend, we want and we struggle with and for the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela We Venezuelans of the Diplomatic Missions of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Africa, we resolutely declare, repudiate, denounce and combat all the aggressions that the Venezuelan extreme right subjects towards the people of Venezuela, its Institutions and its public and private heritage, through clear terrorist actions supported by the Government of the United States of America and certain European and Latin American allies.

The serious complaint we are making, will hopefully help to raise the perception, knowledge and acceptance that our brothers and sisters of the mother continent Africa, have a beautiful popular, peaceful, revolutionary, Bolivarian and deeply democratic process Promoted by our Eternal Commander Hugo Chávez Frías.

A transcendent Process through its inclusive policies at all levels, regional or continental, strongly differentiated from those executed by the 4th Venezuelan Republic, which openly practiced diplomatic and political discrimination with the countries of the South.

Thus, in the hand of the Eternal Commander, through his word and his work, the world could not continue to hide the paradox of wealth and inequality in Africa and other Continents.

With the bi-regional initiatives, plans and projects were devised that indicated the direction to be taken in building a better, multicentre and multi-polar world.

The fight against poverty and inequality has been converted into a struggle against foreign interference, violence and terrorism. Starting from this, the Diplomacy of the People reflected in the action of our Diplomatic Missions, has made it possible to visualize a strong, powerful African continent, triumphant on its way towards dignity, sovereignty, independence and development.

We are very proud to be on this continent and to contribute through our modest efforts in order to build and continue to develop the bonds of brotherhood as we have proved in several occasions such as the Social and Economic Forum South America -Africa (ASA), the South American Arab Forum, MNOAL, and other multilateral agencies and international organizations.

Without fear, we integrate with the people, share joy and sadness with regards to the future of these strategic countries and we combine our will for the struggle for peace, the geopolitical balance of the world, the great Africa, Our America and our Venezuelan Solidarity.

To illustrate this, we explain what the radical opposition in some centers of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has done in an irresponsible way, as well as many of its most characteristic obscurantisms: A. It is stateless, servile and associated with its international peers, killing girls, boys, teenagers, adults and elders.

B. Uses sophisticated and costly military and paramilitary equipment to try to impose their agenda through unconventional fourth-generation warfare.

C. Destroys basic life and health assets such as hospitals, maternity, dispensaries, clinics, road transport and warehouses.

D. Abyss of streets, sidewalks, bridges, sewers, electrical, electronic and telephone networks, ambulances, police patrols, buses and private vehicles.

E. Damage the plant heritage of cities by cutting down centuries-old trees, contaminating drinking water sources with fuel and spoiling distributed water systems.

F. Loots supermarkets, shopping centers, attacks pedestrians with firearms, knives and deadly blunt objects.

G. It is associated with para-militarism, mercenaries and delinquency in general to try to achieve harmful ends.

H. It uses children and weapons so that they participate in the disorder and the attacks of streets, placing them as shields against a supposed repression of the forces of the order.

I. In several countries, it contracts mercenaries to attack our diplomatic missions and their personnel.

J. Violates international laws by trying to justify their actions of pro coup d’état.

K. It disqualifies globally recognized authorities as is the Pope's entity.

L. Stimulates and urges the Venezuelan right-wing clergy to justify and promote their delinquency activities.

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M. Assaults representatives of international organizations which do not approve or give importance to their destabilizing petitions of the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela.

N. It is responsible for more than a hundred deaths of Venezuelan from the moment of the victory of President Nicolás Maduro Moros.

O. It has resulted in material losses of goods and resources for billions of dollars.

P. It is closely linked to the international economic and media war against the homeland of Bolívar and Chávez.

Q. Promotes foreign military intervention in one's own country to achieve their dishonorable goals.

R. It perpetrated attacks on military installations, the police and the government.

S. Affects the rights of any person or institution that does not support them.

T. Plans and executes attacks, fires, looting, all kinds of evil deeds with the support of a few town halls and regional governments dominated by the right.

U. It wanted to ignore public authorities doing public outrage by introducing MPs fraudulently elected to have a qualified majority in the National Assembly.

V. It appointed the current Secretary General of the OAS as its representative in order to condemn the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in that organization.

W. Seeks to ensure that the United Nations Security Council meets in session and takes a biased position on the situation caused by it in Venezuela.

X. It uses infiltrates and disseminates through social networks all sorts of lies about the fictitious murders, arrests and sequestrations of their leaders on the part of the Venezuelan authorities.

Y. Promotes the defamation of the President of the Republic and the High Authority of People's Power in Venezuela as a solution to the crisis.

Z. It betrays her country.

Faced with so much organized violence and the recurrent negative opposition to participate in a timely and peaceful dialogue process - with the presence of intermediaries recognized and authorized by both sides - President Nicolás Maduro Moros, Using the basis of the Constitution of the Republic of Venezuela, in its articles 347-348 and 349, decided: To appeal to a Constituent National Assembly where the sovereign people will take the decision which will lead to the free, universal, direct and secret election of women and men who will face a revitalization of the country by the radical suppression of the violence of the same kind, to strengthen dialogue and peace as a democratic expression in a country of cultural and political diversity, in the name of the recovery of the fundamental values of our population.

To this end, Constituent Assemblies have been realized in almost all the states of the country, contributing to them, with a broad participation of various sectors which aspire to live in peace with social justice, also consolidate and maximize the constitutional bases that we gave ourselves in 1999.

The result of this initiative, which calls and mobilizes the original constituent Power of the Venezuelan people, will ultimately lead to the election of all public authorities. But the opposition of the Venezuelan extreme right does not want it because of its notorious commitments with the financiers of the centers of imperialism and its lackeys, as well as the large media corporations of disinformation that serve their own interests.

Brothers and sisters of this brother continent: For the Dignity, Sovereignty, Independence, Development and supreme happiness of our people: We will win and we will live!

Let Chávez live . The fight goes on!

Unity, struggle, battle and victory!

Venezuelan Embassies in Africa

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Venezuela Supreme Court:

“Convocation of Constituent is Legal”

The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice upheld the power of the President to convene it.

The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), in a joint presentation of the judges and magistrates that compose it, resolved a request for interpretation of articles 347 and 348 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which Correspond to procedures for the convening of the National Constituent Assembly.

According to article 348, the organs that have this power are: The President of the Republic in Council of Ministers; The National Assembly, by agreement of the two thirds of its members; And the Municipal Councils in Cabildo, by means of the two thirds of the vote, will be able to exercise indirectly and by way of spokesman of the popular sovereignty, the convocation to a National Assembly Constituent.

Likewise, it established that the only exception to this rule is the initiative Popular call, by 15% of the voters registered in the Registry. In the terms set forth in the aforementioned judgment, the judges and magistrates of the Constitutional Chamber of the TSJ consider that it is not necessary, or constitutionally binding, an Advisory Referendum, thereby ensuring the legality of convening the Constituent Assembly, made by the President Nicolás Maduro.

In the judgment of the Constitutional Chamber, the magistrates of the maximum court of the country ratified that the initiative to convene the Constituent Assembly as a rule, corresponds to the organs of the National Public Power.

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KENYA:

RWANDA:

PROMOTING THE UNKNOWN ABOUT AFRICA

UGANDA: TANZANIA: SOMALIA:

Kenya Launches Flagship Standard Gauge Railway Set To Transform The Nation

A map of the standard gauge rail (in red) that will run from Kenya's coast connecting to Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan when complete.

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday launched the passenger train service of the 480-km Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), paving way for the nation's endeavor for industrialization and prosperity.

The 3.8-billion-U.S.-dollar infrastructure project was constructed by the China Road and Bridge Corporation, with 90 percent of the funding coming from China.

Chinese State Councilor Wang Yong, who attended the launching ceremony as the special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping, said the Mombasa-Nairobi railway has been an early fruit that came out of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative and the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summit held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in late 2015.

"The Mombasa-Nairobi SGR is an exemplary project of China-Africa cooperation on the construction of roads, railways, aviation networks and industrialization," Wang said, adding that the SGR will bear great significance in boosting the development in Kenya and the region, speeding up Africa's industrialization process, and expanding the reach of the Belt and Road to more African countries.

The SGR, providing both cargo and passenger transport services, will cut dramatically the time and costs for the movement of goods and people. It is expected to reduce the time for a passenger traveling from Mombasa to Nairobi to merely four and a half hours compared to nearly 10 hours on bus. Time to transport cargo from Mombasa to Nairobi, meanwhile, will also decrease from two days to eight hours. www.news.xinhuanet.com

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