Venezuela and Colombia reactivate Binational Technical Commission for the Study of Hydrographic Basins

Published at: 12/06/2026 01:26 PM

This Friday, the Binational Technical Commission for the Study of Hydrographic Basins was relaunched, as part of the commitments made by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Republic of Colombia during the Neighborhood and Integration Commission, held in April 2026, in Caracas.

During the event, which was chaired by the Deputy Minister for Latin America, Mauricio Rodríguez, and the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Juana Castro, for the Colombian side, a next evaluation of the works was scheduled for July 1 and 2, in Bogotá.

The meeting, described as historic, marks the formal relaunch of a vital mechanism for water management, which had been suspended since May 2005, and allowed the Deputy Minister, named after the National Executive, to reiterate the political will of the Bolivarian Government to resume the historic thread of the Act of San Pedro Alejandrino, prioritizing wisdom, international law and peace.

The diplomat stressed the need to transform borders into spaces of technical and scientific opportunity, leaving behind old scenarios of provocation or abandonment promoted by factors outside the binational reality.

“We must see our borders as spaces of opportunities for cooperation and not for divergences: they are geographical points of encounters between two sister peoples with indissoluble historical ties,” he said.

Among the actions agreed during the meeting, the resumption of the work of the demarcation commission, whose joint activities had been paralyzed since 2007, and which will immediately begin the tasks of inspecting, verifying and maintaining the border reality.

MPPRE