Venezuela in BRICS+ will be a strong ally in the construction of a new global order

Published at: 11/10/2024 06:03 PM

In a few days, the BRICS Summit will be held in Kazan (Russia) and expectations are growing as to whether Venezuela's aspiration to join the emerging bloc will be a reality. The Deputy Minister for Europe, Coromoto Godoy, spoke about the “win-win” relationship that the emerging bloc and our country would achieve, if their accession were to take place.

“At a political juncture of multifactorial siege of our country, intensified after the triumph of President Nicolás Maduro on July 28, the entry of Venezuela into the BRICS would be a key message that our country is always aligned with peace and the search for alternatives in the face of a hegemony that tries to crush difference. The BRICS are established as a space for political consultation that we will reach with the dignity of our people and with the willingness to contribute constructively.”

This was highlighted by Coromoto Godoy Calderón, vice-minister for Europe of the Ministry of People's Power for Foreign Affairs, during the conference “Incorporation of Venezuela into the BRICS”, offered from the headquarters of Petrleos de Venezuela, PDVSA, in Caracas, with national and international telematic transmission, connecting 75 rooms in various parts of the country and subsidiaries and joint ventures of the state oil company in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, the Netherlands, Russia, Cuba, Saint Kitts and Nevis, El Salvador and Nicaragua and PDVSA offices in Europe.

Ambassador Godoy, took a look at the entire journey that Venezuela has taken since 2015, when she expressed her interest in joining the BRICS as an Observer State, to this day, when she aspires to join the block as a Full Member, as requested in 2023, by President Nicolás Maduro and whose decision could be effective at the next BRICS Summit to be held between October 22 and 24, in Kazan and to which the First President could take place Nacional has been invited.

“President Maduro, following the legacy of Commander Chávez, assumed in front of the BRICS leaders the responsibility of promoting the political and economic relationship of the BRICS architecture with the main mechanisms of consultation and cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean, including ALBA-TCP and CELAC, to advance the constitution of regional blocs and marks the ALBA-CELAC-BRICS path.”

After making a historical summary of the BRICS, Deputy Minister Godoy referred to the fundamental principles that guide their action, such as non-interference, equality, solidarity, complementation, mutual benefit and collective decision-making.

He then went on to develop the strengths that Venezuela has and that motivate it to join the BRICS, as well as the “win-win” relationship that will be generated by joining the bloc, aligned as our country is with its historical principles and its positions in foreign policy.

“The intention to become a full member of this group coincides with the universalist, anti-hegemonic and multipolar vision that Venezuela has been promoting since 1999 with the arrival of the Bolivarian Revolution and one of its historical objectives contained in the Plan of the Homeland, and now in the Plan of Seven Transformations 2030: To contribute to the development of a new International Geopolitics in which a multicentric and multipolar world takes shape that allows the balance of the universe and guarantees planetary peace.”

He also explained the reciprocal benefits that Venezuela's entry into the BRICS group will entail, starting with energy supply and global security.

“The Bolivarian Revolution is a firm ally of the BRICS, in its crusade for the construction of a new global order, with special clarity about its energy contribution, as a determining element for sustainable development and equity among the peoples of the Earth... The accession of Venezuela with the largest certified oil reserves in the world (303,008 MMBD), would place the BRICS as the definitive oil-energy power and would facilitate the diversification of energy sources among members.”

He specified that Venezuela's geographical position with access to the Atlantic Ocean provides a strategic connection with other regions of the world, which will help to increase and further deepen economic and commercial cooperation between the BRICS and Latin America and the Caribbean.

Mazo News Team