Weekly Newsletter 16

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).

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The Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Kenya marked 204 years of the Solemn Declaration of the Independence of the homeland of Bolívar As part of the 204 years of the solemn declaration of the independence of the homeland, the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Kenya celebrated on 3rd July, 2015, one more year of the nation of Bolivar with a diplomatic reception at Nairobi.

The celebration was attended by members of various sectors of society, Honorable David Pkosing, the MP for Pokot South,was the guest of honor on behalf of the Government of Kenya. It was also attended by various officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, members of the diplomatic corps in Nairobi, the community of Venezuelans living in Kenya and members of the Committee of Friendship and Solidarity Venezuela-Kenya.

Ambassador Jhony Balza Arismendi in his speech said that thanks to the participation of the people in the struggle for independence, they managed to overturn 300 years of colonization, it was not easy, it demanded sacrifices, the price of a confrontation was paid, but our people, with courage, determination and strategic capacity, achieved victory. These ideas, at that time, personified by Simon Bolivar, were a historic landmark and today, when we review reality with the required cleanliness, we know that those ideas remain our roadmap in consolidating the Bolivarian process.

The Ambassador also said that today the Venezuelan people are proud of having had President Hugo Chavez, who encouraged conversion of the concept of independence as part of a strategic project that should consolidate and secure, and with President Nicolas Maduro it behooves us to make it happen for future generations.

Finally, Ambassador Balza said that Africa is no stranger to the process of independence of Venezuela, thanks to slave uprisings that shaped a historic precedent, and now materialize with the relations between Venezuela and Kenya through a profound respect for the framework of an open and friendly dialogue process to build additional links needed to crystallize cooperation projects in the South-South perspective.

Then the MP for South Pokot County, Pkosing David said in his speech that relations between the two countries have been cordial and friendly since 1982, and have been strengthened with the signing of cultural agreements in 2007 and energy cooperation in 2009.

He stressed the mutual support between Kenya and Venezuela in international forums in order to achieve common solutions to the challenges affecting the welfare of our people.

The event was enlivened with Venezuelan music and the presentation of a Kenyan cultural group, besides tasting typical sweets made by members of our people living in this country.

What’s Inside!

1. The Embassy celebrated 204 years of the Venezuelan independence 2.The Embassy and the Kenya-Venezuela Friendship and Solidarity Committee, celebrated the 204 years of the Venezuelan independence 3. Venezuela calls for genuine dialogue and cooperation on human rights at UN 4.Venezuela, China to expand bilateral cooperation over the next 10 years 5. Venezuela gets in solidarity with Greece against IMF’s economic blackmail - ALBA-TCP expresses support to Greece

The Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Kenya and the Kenya-Venezuela Friendship and Solidarity Committee, celebrated the 204 years of the Solemn Declaration of the Independence of the Homeland of BolĂ­var At the seat of our diplomatic mission in Nairobi on July 4th 2015, the celebration of the 204 years of the Solemn Declaration of Independence of Venezuela took place, accompanied by the members of the Kenya-Venezuela Friendship and Solidarity Committee (KVFSC).

The celebration was attended by the Chairman of the KVFSC, Mwandawiro Mghanga, accompanied by Dr. Peter Adwok former minister and social activist of the former Republic of Sudan, Dr. David Anyoty Ugandan teacher, members of the Social Democratic Party of Kenya (SDP) and the Youth Socialist League, students of the University of Nairobi and the Technical University of Kenya.

The Ambassador Jhony Balza, thanked the presence of the great friends of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the revolutionary process led by Commander Hugo Chavez and continued by President Nicolas Maduro. He delivered a message of strength and dynamism for the Committee to redouble its efforts of Friendship and Solidarity with Venezuela and for this work to reach other sectors of the Kenyan society. He also stressed the need to form the Network of

Intellectuals in Defense of Humanity, Nairobi chapter, and expressed that through cultural expression such gathering allows the diplomacy of peoples to remain the instrument of strengthening relations between the two nations.

The Chair of the Kenya-Venezuela Friendship and Solidarity Committee, Mwandawiro Mghanga, expressed his gratitude for the invitation extended by the Embassy to commemorate this great national date and welcomed the efforts made by Ambassador Jhony Balza for the relations between social movements and diplomatic representatives allowing the establishment of the necessary strategies for the common struggles of both peoples obtain the necessary results, a fairer world.

The celebration was enlivened by local cultural groups and the guests enjoyed a taste of traditional Venezuelan sweets made by Venezuelans living in Kenya.

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Venezuela calls for genuine dialogue and cooperation on human rights at UN Caracas, 30 Jun. AVN.Venezuela ratified on Monday before the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations (UN) its commitment to ensure respect for the fundamental rights of citizens while asked to ensure impartial debate on this issue at international fora.

Venezuela's General Prosecutor Luisa Ortega Diaz submitted the report on progress on civil and political rights in Geneva, Switzerland, where she requested the issue be discussed "in a spirit of genuine dialogue, cooperation, in accordance with the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations."

She said Venezuelans "expect to endorse with members of this committee a rich, useful, fruitful interactive dialogue for the further self-evaluation and deepening of our ties with the universal system of human rights."

During her speech, she highlighted Venezuelan constitutional law on freedom of expression and right to demonstrate. "In Venezuela public demonstrations have become a common everyday fact, which are part of our political pluralism and ideological diversity. The work of police forces should be aimed at ensuring that right to peaceful demonstration does not result in the infringement of others' rights and violation of national laws," she said.

Prosecutor also talked about violent and criminal actions perpetrated by violent groups in the country since February 12, 2014, with the intention of fomenting instability and a coup against the constitutional government of President Nicolas Maduro and other legitimate authorities elected by the Venezuelan people.

She described this aggression, marked by blocked roads, extensive damage to public and private institutions, transportation systems and utilities, "actions that are clear violations of the rights and freedoms of the rest of the population."

Ortega Diaz stressed that these actions promoted by the far right, resulted in 878 injured, of which 278 were state security officers, along with 43 deaths, of which 10 were police officers, soldiers and a public prosecutor.

She recalled that faced with violence, the state therefore had to intervene through security bodies and those caught in flagrante delicto were referred to court "with all the guarantees of due process."

She called it as something extraordinary that some media outlets, politicians and even so-called human rights defenders have justified such crimes and consider its authors as "peaceful" demonstrators.

Given this account of events, prosecutor noted that the people of Venezuela has demonstrated its commitment to democracy, sovereignty and self-determination through the secret, free and universal suffrage in 19 national elections since 1999 confirming the transparent and auditable nature of the Venezuelan electoral system, recognized in the international community as one of the best in the world.

In her address, prosecutor recalled that in 2006 Venezuela undertook a process of police reform that has emerged as a breakthrough, based on a new civil, professional and preventive model that respects human rights, and the enactment of the law on police service which establishes progressive, differentiated use of force.

"The Venezuelan government does not endorse police actions that violate human rights, we rather condemn them," and in isolated cases where excesses have been committed authorities have been acting firmly," she said.

She said that from January to May 2015 the Public Prosecutor's Office has indicted 252 police officers, charged 110 more and 53 have been sentenced by court, of which 66 are deprived of their liberty.

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Venezuelan prosecutor also highlighted the role of the Ombudsman and the Attorney's offices as mediating institutions among social and political actors, "encouraging meetings between different social sectors of the country."

Likewise, the Venezuelan government fully guarantees all rights of inmates, accelerates the proceedings and communication with their family members as well as their recreation and education.

"In order to expedite procedures there were set up mobile criminal courts. Also attorneys protecting fundamental rights and ombudsmen ensure the effective exercise of their rights and are constantly urging the competent institutions to comply with the implementation of measures that correspond," she said.

She recalled that for the first time in the country's history there is a system of protection for indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants and also for children and adolescents and especially women.

Ortega Diaz cited the partial reform adopted by the National Assembly of the Organic Law on the Right of Women to a Life Free of Violence, for including the crime of femicide, prohibiting human trafficking, slavery and forced labor.

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Venezuela, China to expand bilateral cooperation over the next 10 years Caracas, 29 Jun. AVN.-

The 4th Technical Secretariat of

China-Venezuela High-Level Joint Commission was set up this Monday, at the seat of the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry, also known as the Yellow House in Caracas, to assess the progress of projects being implemented under economic

agreements

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infrastructure,

telecommunications, industrial sectors among others, said vice president of planning and knowledge, Ricardo Menendez.

He said these meetings will run for three days and will be aimed at planning binational agenda over the next 10 years to comply with the objectives of Plan of the Nation 2013-2019.

"We will be working on the telecommunications issue, with the provision of the tablets, laptops for university, secondary and primary students. Besides, the installation of telecommunications facilities, configuration of this system in our country and submarine cables to link to the Caribbean," he said in statements to state media.

Another factor that will be paramount to the meeting will be the industrial subject, Menendez said, because both countries will address the progress of cement plants, iron, aluminum and paper industries.

Furthermore, the development of the national infrastructure will be present in these high-level sessions as well as the operation of ports and airports of the country.

Similarly, the two governments will discuss the electrical system and issues related to land transport systems of Venezuela.

"Subsequently, we will be working on oil cooperation and issues related to strategic alliance such as housing development, Barrio Nuevo, Barrio Tricolor (or New, Tricolor Neighborhood) –a social program aimed at the rehabilitation of infrastructure and services of popular areas– and its reach in the country, which is, in large part, due to cooperation with China" he said. www.avn.info.ve

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Venezuela gets in solidarity with Greece against IMF’s economic blackmail embrace. If something has been known in Greece for two thousand years, it is the word democracy and the Greek people will respond with democracy. We already lived that.

If we could talk to the people and tell them how everything was privatized here, were ruled out the pensions, the public education, and the people had to eat dog food” During his “En Contacto con said the President.

The National President Maduro” (In contact with Maduro) also stressed that Latin America In that regard, he urged the program, the Head of State said he and the Caribbean are supports and admires what is doing people of Greece to liberate from more stronger than ever with that country against the economic the IMF. “We broke the ties with Petrocaribe, and indicated that it blackmail of financial capitals that the International Monetary Fund, is the vaccine against the social pretend to appropriate the wealth of have no fear, the way is to break the and economic crisis that has ties with the financial capital, nations. pretended to destabilize the ending with that yoke which aims sovereign and independent “I officially want, feelingly, to to seize the wealth of the peoples peoples. express to prime minister Tsipras, to and the countries. We admire Siryza and to the Greek people, all the what you are doing, do not be www.rnv.gob.ve blackmailed by the economic solidarity of the Bolivarian and capital “.

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The President of the Republic, Nicolas Maduro, manifested on Tuesday his solidarity with the people of Greece, and with their prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, who is waging a battle against the economic domination of European creditors, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) .

ALBA-TCP expresses support to Greece The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) issued a communiqué to support Greece due to the financial measures “aims to overcome the democracy of the Greece people.”

“The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) expresses its firmly support and solidarity to the people and government of Greece due to fierce attack of the worldwide financial capitalism and its European representatives which want to end with a dignify life in that country.”

ALBA-TCP also expressed through its communiqué that “ALBA peoples and governments convince in Commander Hugo Chavez’s words the history call all of us to the union and the struggle, we send a message to the brave Greek people for historic battle for the salvation of all mankind for life freedom and self-determination of people.” http://hoyvenezuela.info

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