Mali’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abdoulaye Diop, is visiting Venezuela with the aim of strengthening cooperation between the two countries, which will mark 49 years of diplomatic relations this coming December. On the agenda of the Malian officials, the highlight is the second meeting of the Venezuela-Mali Political Consultation Mechanism.
00:00The high officials of the country of Mali are finding inspiration and admire the rebellion,
00:12the resilience and determination of the Venezuelan people that continues battling every day to
00:21guarantee their independence and sovereignty and maintaining the people's capacity and government's
00:31capacity of the country to self-determination and on their future and resources.
00:38We are in the framework of a consultation mechanism, political consultation among both
00:43of our nations that couldn't be held for the past couple of years.
00:52And thanks to Minister Ivan, here we were able to arrange this encounter.
00:58We have been seeing each other in several events, but today we could have a word on our bilateral
01:04relations and decided that it is important for both nations to work together and to identify
01:10the points to boost our relations and our cooperation.
01:16And we are also being able to make some exchanges in bilateral matters and international topics.
01:26Mali and Venezuela have an identity similar in regarding these issues and we are battling
01:35to guarantee the sovereignty of our nations.
01:40Mali expresses through my voice all of its gratitude towards Venezuela from the era of Commando Chavez
01:46until today.
01:47Venezuela has held a hand to Mali in education matters, agriculture and we wish to keep working
01:58together to keep consolidating these cooperation foundations between our nations.
02:05I also would like to say that Mali, showing its plain solidarity towards Venezuela, reiterates
02:12its opposition to the unilateral coercive sanctions imposed unjustifiably against the people of Venezuela
02:24and desires that these measures be halted immediately for the people to, and the state of Venezuela to respond
02:33to its aspirations, its deepest aspirations.
02:37Mali is facing as well the imposition of these sanctions, these coercive unilateral measures, contrary
02:44to the United Nations Charter, contrary to the international law, Mali and Venezuela will be working together
02:52for the respect of the United Nations Charter, and I recall that those nations are members
02:58of the Club of Friends of the United Nations Charter, and the movement of non-aligned countries,
03:06the movement of the 75, and in the framework of these communities, we are working together to move forward
03:17in a multipolar world in which the things and the matters of everyone are listened to battle
03:24and to face the great injustice faced by Palestinians, and once again we are having these encounters with
03:32concrete actions and proposals, and we are going to be pleased to receive Minister Ivan here in Sahel, and next year in Mali,
03:44we are going to hold a mix, a joint cooperation that is going to be important for getting both countries closure,
03:57and for our relations of solidarity be boosted, and relations that help us to face the same battles,
04:05the same domination forces, imperialist forces that want to subjugate our countries, and we are battling against that.
04:15Our countries are open to this cooperation in Mali, and in Mali we identify three key principles for cooperation among parties.
04:26The General-in-Chief Semergoita established three principles in these bilateral relations that are not a problem for Venezuela,
04:38that is, even inside the constitution. The first one, the respect for sovereignty of Mali, the respect of the strategic decisions of a line of Mali,
04:49and a third one, the consideration of the people of Mali, and a third one, the consideration of the people of Mali in every decision taken.
04:56Before I add my words, I would like to thank the quality of the exchange I had with Minister Ivan here and with his cabinet,
05:07and all of the members of the government of Venezuela, and to thank the high authorities of Venezuela for their,
05:17with the head of the country, President Nicolás Maduro, and all the Venezuelan people, and all the ministers,
05:24for the welcome, the warm welcome that they have been giving us today.
05:30And we are going to keep even more inspired for the battle of the Venezuelan people, a struggle that we are seeing here.
05:43And also visited the mausoleum, and this battle is inspiring us all to honor and the defense of our country.
05:57Thank you very much for your attention. Statements by Ivan Hill, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela.
06:11Good morning. On behalf of President Nicolás Maduro, I would like to offer a warm welcoming to our friend,
06:21Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mali and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mali, our great Abdullahiyeb, who is visiting us this weekend, this week in Caracas,
06:36to hold this second mechanism of political consultation between Mali and Venezuela, that, as he mentioned, our Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mali, Abdullahiyeb,
06:49we are two nations that have a lot in common, that face and battle in a common cause, the independence of the people,
07:01the sovereignty of our nations, the liberty, the freedom we have to administer our resources that we are facing, imperialism, neocolonialism.
07:11And in that struggle we are now, we have met in the international scenario, and also we have met in a process, in a period in which Venezuela,
07:23thanks to the vision of Commander Hugo Chavez, began 26 years ago, a process of approach meant, intense approach meant with the mother Africa.
07:37We have been developing under instructions of President Nicolás Maduro Moros, an intense process of re-approachment and coordination in matters and concrete matters,
07:51practical matters, commercial topics, finance, cooperation in the area of education, in the area of healthcare, energy sector, agricultural sector, with every single country of Africa,
08:05and Mali is one of them. Let's recall that the action of President Hugo Chavez, the realization of projects in the area of households, culture as well, but also in other domains,
08:20the formation of healthcare professionals like it is the formation of healthcare professionals of Mali in Venezuela that are undergoing master degrees and postgraduate degrees.
08:37And we are moving forward in the given of more postgraduate scholarships for Mali students. Also, the minister is going to hold several meetings with several ministers of the country of our government, cultural mining, education, university, with also the Secretary of the Alba TCP.
09:04We are going to be exchanging experiences in our union, in our integrationist union, Latin American Union and the alliance of states of Sahel.
09:16That is also a motive of political exchange to understand, to go deep into the political situation of this region.
09:26We have had a discussion of over an hour with minister where we went through every one of these aspects and we have reaffirmed the compromise and commitment of Mali and Venezuela to go jointly through a series of aspects of geopolitical issues,
09:49which is precisely the unilateral sanctions against the unilateral sanctions against Mali and Venezuela, both nations who have been victims of the illegal application of unilateral coercive measures that together we are facing, together we condemn them.
10:05And we have demanded its immediate left as nations, as independent nations, and as well as brothers we are, and also through our group of friends of the United Nations Charter.
10:22Also, we have reaffirmed the condemnation of the aggressions against the people of Palestine, as the minister mentioned, demanding the freedom that the Palestinian people have become an independent state as it is mandated by the United Nations in its border before 1967,
10:48with Jerusalem as its capital and also the return of all the Palestinian refugees.
10:55This visit of the minister here marks a key point in the history of relations between Mali and Venezuela because it is going to allow us to design all mechanisms of cooperation, of concrete cooperation in trade matters, in industrial, agricultural, finance matters.
11:17President Nicolás Maduro has been emphatic in assuring that we need to boost in this centric, multi-polar world, all of our cooperation.
11:29We are very willing to, and it's our message to the head of the transition, that along with President Nicolás Maduro, we go together, we work together towards boosting the alliance between Mali
11:44and Venezuela and Venezuela and Venezuela and Venezuela and Venezuela, as we mentioned, we are going through the 49th year of bilateral relations.
11:51And next year, we are going to be celebrating the 50th anniversary of our relations, celebrating the mixed joint work table between nations among Venezuelans and Malians.
12:06So, without nothing more to say, thank you Minister Abdoulayeb for your visit and also to say on behalf of President Nicolás Maduro that Venezuela and Caracas is your home. Venezuela is the gate, the entrance gate for Africa and Mali in Latin America.
12:30And together we are going to keep working together. So, this week we are going to have a lot of meetings, a lot of contacts, a lot of agreements that we are going to be announcing to the people.
12:40Thank you very much, everyone. This is the end. We were listening to statements of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Ivan Hill, and the Foreign Affairs Minister of Mali, with the signature of bilateral agreement that strengthens and reaffirms the diplomacy of the
13:00of Venezuela, the diplomacy of peace. And at this moment, in the presence of the image of Simon Bolivar, this is how both nations are at this hour reiterating their friendship, their cooperation, Venezuela being also the gate to Africa in Latin America in a moment in which Venezuela is reaffirming, strengthening the bonds, the agreements between Latin America and the
13:30Venezuela and the African nation as it is a legacy left by Commander Hugo Chavez. And this happened today as part of an agenda that is going to be.
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