Chavez, Lula Concerned About Latin America
Situation
Caracas - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez
and his Brazilian peer Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva shared their concern about the coup in
Honduras and the threat that entails to
establish military bases in Colombia.
According to a communique released on
Thursday by the Miraflores Palace, both
presidents also talked on the telephone on
Wednesday about their commitment to making
progress in bilateral relations.
According to a press release, Lula confirmed
his attendance to the 2nd Africa-South
America Summit that will be held in
Venezuela in September, as well as to the
quarterly meeting with Chavez to strengthen
bilateral cooperation.
They talked about "the need to increase
international pressure on the coup leaders
to guarantee President Manuel Zelaya's
restitution and restoration of democracy in
that sister nation."
"Chavez commented on the danger and the
threat that the intention to establish US
military bases in Colombia represents, and
explained the measures that our government
has been forced to adopt to guarantee
regional peace and stability," the text
said.
"They shared their happiness for the
agreement reached between PDVSA and
PETROBRAS companies, of great significance
to establishing a complementary relation
between our countries, to reach full energy
sovereignty," the release said.
Lula announced that his advisor Marco
Aurelio Garcia would visit Venezuela the
upcoming weekend, and Development, Industry
and Foreign Trade Minister Miguel Jorge will
be in this country from August 19-20,
accompanied by a large Brazilian
businesspeople delegation.
"They ratified their commitment to
continuing their quarterly meetings, leaving
as a pending issue to fix the exact date for
September, when they should hold the third
meeting of the year, in which they are
expected to continue strengthening the
strategic alliance between Brazil and
Venezuela," the document concluded.
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