SA Coat of Arms.jpg DIRCO Media Statement, 6 May 2016 Visit to South Africa by Deputy President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Mr Aristóbulo Istύriz The Deputy President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Mr Aristóbulo Istύriz will visit South Africa on from 8 to 10 May 2016 on a working visit. South Africa will be the start of Deputy President Istύriz’ agenda of working visits to the BRICS countries. During his visit he will meet with his counterpart, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and also pay a courtesy call on President Jacob Zuma. Venezuela remains a strategic country to South Africa and will be hosting the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in September 2016. It is therefore possible that the two Deputy Presidents will discuss amongst other things the economic cooperation between the two countries. The visit also aims to continue the consolidation of diplomatic ties that already exist. South Africa and Venezuela have always maintained strong political relations. Diplomatic relations were established in 1993 and in 1995 Venezuela opened its Embassy in Pretoria. South Africa opened its Embassy in Caracas in January 1998. Venezuela plays an important role in the region and is a member of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America (ALBA) and the proprietor of the PetroCaribe initiative. Issued by: The Department of International Relations and Cooperation For further information, please contact: Mr Clayson Monyela, Spokesperson for DIRCO, on 082 884 5974 OR Tambo Building 460 Soutpansberg Road Rietondale Pretoria 0084 From: http://www.dirco.gov.za/docs/2016/vene0506.htm -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
