Africa-Press – Angola. The ambassador of Venezuela in Angola, Marlon Labrador, presented this Thursday, in Luanda, farewell greetings to the president of the National Assembly (AN), Carolina Cerqueira, with the certainty of the need for reinforcement of bilateral relations.
After five years representing his country in Angola, Marlon Labrador explained that the meeting served, in addition to saying goodbye to his interlocutor, to review the current state of bilateral cooperation and the great challenges facing the two countries have to strengthen their economies.
He highlighted, on the other hand, the need to boost inter-parliamentary meetings, reporting that Venezuela has already taken a significant step in this direction, with the creation of a friendship group with Angola, last April, lacking the just its formalization.
He recalled that Venezuela will hold the electoral election on July 28th of this year and hopes that cooperation between the two parliaments reaches the recommended levels.
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is a country located in the North of South America, with a total area of 916 thousand 445 kilometers. It has a mixed economy, based on the market dominated by oil, which accounts for around a third of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Since 2005, Venezuela has maintained full diplomatic relations with the African continent, where Angola is considered one of the most important partners.
Relations between the two countries were boosted by the visit of the then President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, to Angola, in August 2006.
In July 2017, Venezuela and Angola signed, in Caracas, two memorandums of understanding to develop diamond extraction in Venezuelan territory.
The agreements include cooperation for the training of professional Venezuelan miners in the production of diamonds, at artisanal, semi-industrial and industrial levels, the optimization of processes for marketing rough diamonds, cutting, organization, processing and streamlining of procedures based on Kimberley Process Certification System, which controls diamond exports and legal commercialization on the international market.
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