The documents resulting from the III. signed the joint integration commission of the two countries, which met for two days in this capital.
The declarations of intent covered areas such as the return of cultural property; education, cooperation in judiciary, science, gas and hydrocarbon matters; health training; Mining; act; and commercial empowerment.
It also included an agreement between press agencies ABI and AVN; in air transport services and reliability of information between gas companies.
In the act, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro presented his Bolivian counterpart Luis Arce with the replica saber from the Battle of Carabobo. Arce thanked the affection and hospitality of the Venezuelan people and assured that the strengthening of bilateral ties embodied in the agreements reached after several days of work by the ministers and technical teams “marks the restart of our relations”.
Bolivia has always been a grateful people who have known how to work and, above all, recognize the generosity and solidarity of sister republic Venezuela, he said.
He expressed that in this context and with the broadest spirit that his country has to improve the integration of Latin America, to “build this great homeland that we yearn and long for”, this step is a grain of sand, to advance in this great company, to realize the dream of El Libertador and many.
He celebrated that the agreements are the starting point for relations between his government and that of Venezuela, assuring that they will continue to work to achieve integration in communications and air transport as well, so that Caracas can feel in La Paz to have a great ally.
Referring to the 13 cooperation documents, Maduro noted that “they need to be carefully maintained and edited by his government,” and recommended adding them to the agenda of each minister and company that just signed them.
They are more than a memorandum, he affirmed, they are documents of commitments signed between our peoples to usher in a new growing phase of common work and integration.
We, he said to Arce, must be the guarantee that we will now move forward without interruption, weaving the network in the spirit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America – the commercial treaty of the peoples and community of Latin American and Caribbean.
With the aim, he stressed, of continuing to build a new world, an alternative to wild neoliberal capitalism.
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