The Executive Vice President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguezmet with the Director of the Business Unit of Repsol in Venezuela, Luis Antonio García Sánchez, in Caracas, to discuss the “strategic alliances” and move forward in “energy cooperation“, reported the public channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV) this Friday.
“Our country continues to advance in its energy cooperation projects and in its alliances with companies that, like Repsol, trust and invest in the world’s largest oil reserve,” said Rodríguez, quoted in a VTV statement.
The state channel broadcast footage of the meeting, in which no further details were provided about the proceedings.
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According to VTV, the “synergy” between Venezuela and Repsol reinforces the Caribbean nation’s commitment to “consolidate its leading position in the global energy market, promoting development and economic stability through strategic alliances and international cooperation.”
This meeting takes place two days after the president of the Venezuelan Parliament, the chavista Jorge Rodríguez, asked the Foreign Policy Commission to meet immediately to prepare a resolution that the plenary “peremptorily approves” to ask “the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela all relations” with Spain were immediately broken off.
The proposal arose after the Spanish Congress approved the recognition of opponent Edmundo González Urrutia – exiled in the European country – as president-elect.
Rodriguez also demanded that the resolution establish that “all commercial activities of Spanish companies cease immediately,” in response to what he considered “the most brutal outrage” by Spain against Venezuela “since the time” when the Caribbean country was fighting for its independence, referring to the Congress’ decision.
This Friday, the Spanish ambassador to Venezuela, Ramón Santos, met with the chancellor of the Caribbean nation, Yván Gil, after being summoned to consultations, considering that the executive of Nicolas Maduro There has been a deterioration in relations due to the “interference” of members of Pedro Sánchez’s government in terms of Caribbean countries, which the oil nation “will not allow”
Santos attended the meeting at the Foreign Ministry headquarters in Caracas at the request of Gil, who described the previous day as “insolent, intrusive and rude” the statements of the Spanish Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, for whom the Maduro government is a “dictatorship.”
