With a floral offering to the Liberator, Venezuela and Palestine celebrate 15 years of diplomatic relations

Published at: 26/04/2024 02:16 PM

With a wreath-laying ceremony before the sarcophagus of the Father of the Fatherland, Simon Bolivar, in the Monumental Complex National Pantheon and Mausoleum of the Liberator, the Minister of People's Power for Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, together with the ambassador of the State of Palestine accredited in Venezuela, Fadi Alzaben, celebrated 15 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

The solemn ceremony was attended by the vice-ministries of Asia, the Middle East and Oceania, Latin America, Europe, the Caribbean and International Communication; Tatiana Pugh, Rander Peña, Coromoto Godoy, Raúl Li Causi and Mercedes Chacín respectively, as well as the executive secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), Jorge Arreaza and other representatives of the Palestinian State accredited in the country.

On April 27, 2009, under the Government of the Eternal Commander, Hugo Chávez Frías, Venezuela recognized the State of Palestine and established diplomatic relations, being the first country in the Americas to recognize the sovereignty of this Arab people.

Since then, cooperation agreements have been signed in the fields of education, economy, trade, energy, agriculture, culture, tourism, communication, sports, defense, security and health.

In addition, the Bolivarian Government in different international settings has firmly supported the rights of the Palestinian people in the face of illegal occupation and Israel's incessant attacks on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

At the recent XXIII Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), the Venezuelan Head of State, Nicolás Maduro, read and approved a special statement, which expresses the call to the international community to impose an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and to stop genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against their people who violate the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations, International Law and International Humanitarian Law.

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