Weekly Newsletter 11

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).

weeklynewsletter VOL. 1 2nd JUNE 2015 ISSUE. 11

Petrocaribe to Launch Plan Hugo Chávez to Eradicate Hunger in the Region

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The countries members of Petrocaribe (an Energy Cooperation Agreement) plan to discus about the plan to eradicate hunger and poverty “Hugo Chávez”. The issued will be discussed on next Petrosur meeting in Caracas on May 25th-27th.

1. Petrocaribe to launch plan Hugo Chávez to eradicate hunger in the region

Hugo Chávez plan was created in 2013 to support the 21 countries belong to Petrocaribe and Alba (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America) to support plans for family agriculture, to strengthen the agro-industry and to develop to productive chain to reach an equitable food distribution.

2. Venezuela, Russia ratify Bilateral relations and Respect for sovereignty

The goal is to create global plans to eradicate poverty and hunger in the region.

Members of Sana (plan for food security and sovereignty for LatinAmerica and the Caribbean) recently travel through the region to define the financial details to launch the Hugo Chávez plan.

Petrocaribe meets in Caracas Delegates from Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Belice, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haití, Honduras, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Surinam and Venezuela, will meet in Pdvsa (the national oil company) headquarters, in Caracas.

Delegations will meet to discuss about plans in favor of the development of the region. www.hoyvenezuela.info

3. UNHCR: Venezuela is a guarantor of international treaties on refugee support -Venezuela halved undernourishment rates in 2015.

4. Bolivarian policies increased people's access to universities

Venezuela, Russia ratify bilateral relations and respect for sovereignty Caracas, 27 May. Venezuela National Agency.

Foreign ministers of Venezuela and Russia, Delcy Rodriguez and Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov, respectively, ratified the willingness of their governments to further deepen bilateral relations and respect the sovereignty of peoples.

Both foreign ministers offered on Wednesday a joint press conferences from Moscow, to give details of the results of the eleventh meeting of the High-Level Russia-Venezuela Intergovernmental Commission (CIAN, Spanish acronym), held in the Russian capital.

At the meeting, which is scheduled annually between the governments of Venezuela and Russia to address issues of bilateral relations, the ministers reviewed mutual cooperation agreements in the areas of the oil industry, agriculture, trade, industrialization, housing, culture and education.

Venezuela's foreign minister Delcy Rodriguez said Russia and Venezuela have become the target of an unconventional war.

In this regard, she stated that Venezuela's trade relations with Russian business groups are planning to further develop productive economic areas, including food production in Venezuela.

For his part, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stressed that Venezuela and Russia are the main forces of the new multipolar world that is being built, while expressed the intention of his country to expand cooperation with the South American country in strategic areas such as energy, education, trade and military cooperation.

He also reaffirmed the commitment of Russia and Venezuela to respect the nations of the world. "Our relations have been strengthened, leveraged in every possible way we can find cooperation. We maintain the commitment of the international respect, we respect other nations and international organizations. We support the initiative to create a multipolar world in which Russia and Venezuela may go hand in hand seeking to strengthen this group that has been trying to shape the new world."

In remarks broadcast by Telesur, he stressed that relations with Latin American nations is a priority for Russia, as part of the policy President Vladimir Putin has been instituting for several years.

He also stressed the importance of Latin America today –which he said– is reflected in the formation of a more just and equal world.

He said further that Russia supports the efforts of Venezuela to promote integration among nations through regional bodies such as the Community of Latin American and

Caribbean States (CELAC), the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) and the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR).

He was emphatic in stating that Russia supports ongoing dialogue and maintains exchanges back and forth with those blocks and added that Russia's government initiated preparations to establish mechanisms of cooperation with the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) and the economic union in general.

"We will continue working along these lines to keep good relations we have with Latin American nations," said the Russian foreign minister.

He also said his nation has a mechanism to monitor oil situation in the international market.

"Along with Venezuela we are large producers of fossil fuels, so we have to pay particular attention to developments in this area," he said.

The Venezuelan delegation –headed by the Foreign Minister, Delcy Rodriguez; and the Ministers of Petroleum and Mining, Asdrubal Chavez; Water and Air Transport, Giuseppe Yoffreda; Economy, Finance and Public Banking, Rodolfo Marco Torres– arrived last Monday in Russia to participate in the 11th High-Level Intergovernmental Commission (CIAN).

Venezuela and Russia have cooperation agreements in oil, military, civil defense areas as well as in the fight against the illegal use of narcotics.

The Venezuela-Russia relationship began in May 2001, after a visit paid by leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chavez, to the Eurasian nation.

Currently Russia and Venezuela have several joint ventures in this territory that has the world's largest certified oil reserves.

On January 15, during the visit of President Nicolas Maduro to Russia as part of his presidential tour, his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, said that Venezuela is one of the most important allies of that country, to the point of being qualified as a strategic ally.

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UNHCR: Venezuela is a guarantor of international treaties on refugee support He referred, after the meeting held with Monica Sandri, a representative of the aforementioned agency in Venezuela, that they agreed on joint strategies to attend the Colombian citizens, refugees in our country. “We have awarded this special status that involves to credit the refugees into the SAIME (National Citizen Registry), and to give the regularization of their documents for they to transit within the national territory�.

Saab explained that, since January up to date, a total of 5,497 Colombians have entered the country illegally.

Tarek William Saab, Ombudsman, manifested on 25 May that Venezuela was acknowledged by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a guarantor country of the International treaties on Fundamental Rights.

He detailed that will work together to ensure the adequate stability of the Colombian brothers in the country. www.rnv.gob.ve

Venezuela Halved Undernourishment Rates in 2015.

Despite the number of hungry people has dropped 216 million worldwide since 1992, FAO announced that only 72 out of 129 countries monitored by the organization, have achieved the millennium goal target of halving the prevalence of undernourishment by 2015.

On June 2013, the FAO congratuled Venezuela for reducing hunger to 5%. During 1990-1992, hungry people in Venezuela reached 13.5%.

The number of hungry people in the world is 795 million, according to the latest edition of the hunger report published today by the Food and Agriculture organizations of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFDA) and the World Food Programme (WFP); and only 29 countries in the world, Venezuela is on the list, have reached to halving the absolute number of undernourished people by 2015.

The Venezuela government has reaffirmed the struggle against the economic war to guarantee the food for the people.

Marcelo Resende, the FAO representative in Venezuela, highlighted on May 16th, 2015, the progress on food security reached by the Venezuelan government. www.hoyvenezuela.info

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Support in arms trafficking and non state groups against legitimate governments promotes terrorism in the Middle East New York, 29th May 2015 On Friday, during a ministerial meeting of the Security Council, Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the UN, Rafael Ramirez, said that the strengthening and expansion of criminal organizations are due to external financing and logistical and military equipment received by third parties.

The ministerial meeting was led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Linas Linkevicius, and was attended by the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon; the Secretary General of Interpol, Jürgen Stock; and Ambassadors to the UN Gerard Van Bohemen from New Zealand, and Raimonda Murmokaitė from Lithuania, as chairmen of the sanctions committees 1267 and 1566, regarding Al-Qaida and Counter Terrorism, respectively.

In his speech, Ramirez said: "We believe that the birth, growth and expansion of such criminal organizations have reached higher levels, due to external financing and logistical and military equipment that they receive from third countries which, non state actors, use to destabilize or overthrow sovereign governments.”

He also noted that nowadays there is a clear increase in terrorist violence in countries in Africa and the Middle East, affecting large areas of Iraq, Syria and Libya, among others.

In addition, Ramirez referred to the link of terrorist groups with the collapse of States and their institutions as a result of the interventions occurred in the cases of Iraq and Libya, which favors a space for violence and intolerance of the sectors involved. At the same time, he reflected on the existing commitment to reduce the mobilization of foreign terrorist fighters in conflict zones.

Finally, regarding the international movement that promotes the proliferation of foreign terrorist fighters, Ramirez pondered: "How has been possible this flow to conflict areas in Syria and Iraq? In what extent there is a real commitment or ability on the part of the countries of transit of terrorists to the fight against this phenomenon? " www.mppre.gob.ve

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