Venezuela and Benin agree on the importance of fostering alliances

Published at: 20/01/2024 04:37 PM

The Minister of People's Power for Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil and his counterpart from Benin, Shegun Adjadi Bakari, held a bilateral meeting in Uganda as part of the work agenda of the diplomatic team of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, on the occasion of the XIX Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (Mnoal).

At the meeting, the authorities took stock of relations of friendship and cooperation, in order to strengthen them, and ratified their governments' commitment to mutual support and solidarity in multilateral settings.

Venezuela and Benin, which established diplomatic relations on June 20, 1991, are making progress in cooperation in the field of human rights. In January 2022, the Benin Mediator and the Venezuelan Ombudsman signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

In 2022, five Beninese students trained in Integral Community Medicine were received, as part of the Venezuelan Government's International Student Program, through the Grand Mariscal Foundation of Ayacucho (Fundayacucho), and a cooperation agreement was signed in electoral matters, within the framework of the legislative elections held on January 8, 2023.

Venezuela has trained more than 350 public servants from the Republic of Benin in good human rights practices, within the framework of the Training Program on Critical Visions of Human Rights of the Ombudsman's Office.

Currently, there are 15 agreements signed in the fields of politics, technical cooperation, twinning of local governments, visa suppression, the fight against drugs and elections.

MPPRE