Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in his TV program Con Maduro De Repente, June 11, 2024. Photo: X/@diario_orinoco.
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has announced the creation of an agricultural business commission to establish agreements with and expand exports to the BRICS countries.
“We are going to organize an agro-productive business commission of all the states of the country to strengthen connections with the BRICS countries to establish contacts and ties, to export Venezuelan production to those countries,” President Maduro said during his radio program Con Maduro De Repente on Tuesday, June 11.
The establishment of business contacts for the export of Venezuelan goods and services must go “beyond” the oil and gas sector, the president emphasized.
“Investments in oil, gas, and petrochemicals are very good, but we have to think beyond oil. We have to think about a country that has manufacturing, agriculture, fishing, and aquaculture,” he said.
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On June 10, Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Yvan Gil stated that his country seeks to accelerate its entry as a full member of the BRICS+. He made this statement during his participation at the foreign ministers meeting of the BRICS+ group of countries, held in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod.
“Venezuela attends the ministerial meeting with the purpose of accelerating its entry as a full member, considering its energy strengths and its strategic location in the American continent,” Gil said at the meeting.
In August 2023, the BRICS authorized the entry as full members of Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates, and Iran. However, the new right-wing president of Argentina, Javier Milei, withdrew Argentina’s membership request.
