Venezuela and Colombia are planning to establish regional energy alliance


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Caracas, Mar. 18 ABN .- Venezuela and Colombia are planning to establish an energy partnership that will ensure stability in this area and, in turn, allows the regional development of both nations, said Tuesday the minister of the People's Power for Foreign Affairs, Nicolás Maduro.

So Venezuelan diplomat said during his intervention at the reunion that takes place with his Colombian counterpart Jaime Bermudez, I find that is made from Meliá Caracas, where he stated that in addressing the issues that will establish a set of proposals in which progress is expected to leverage the project as a tool to boost the economic relationship between the countries.

"We have outstanding, the questions which are related to agricultural development and food in order to construct a new bi-national financial institutions, points to our development, especially in maintaining and enhancing the flow of investment amid the current economic crisis facing the world, "he said.

In this regard, Maduro said that these issues will prepare an agenda decision to the presidents of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez and Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, to conduct a meeting where he set a floor for fundamental human and political relations in energy, economic, food and agriculture of the fraternal countries.

For his part, thanked the Chancellor Bermúdez invitation was made to the country to participate in this bilateral meeting, while stressing the need to agree that the shield of the brunt of the crisis of capitalism in the world .

"We have to realize these projects, especially in these times when we are in the midst of a global financial crisis," the chancellor neogranadino.

Bermudez came to Caracas accompanied by Deputy Foreign Minister Clemencia Forero, the vice minister of Commerce, Gabriel Duque; Bancoldex Vice President, Gustavo Ardila, and Vice President of Operations of that institution, Jorge Garcia Andrade