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International
Updated
31/10/09
Time
05:35 p.m. |
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Venezuela, Brazil Sign Agreements for
Integration |
Escrito por claudia gomez
 Caracas,
Oct 31 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela and Brazil have taken an
important step in the binational integration with the
singning in the state of Anzoategui, Venezuela, of 15
agreements in strategic areas, including energy, food,
industry and telecommunications.
The new cooperation instruments were signed during the visit
of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the 7th
quarterly meeting with his Venzuelan peer Hugo Chávez since
2007 to boost political and economic ties between both
countries.
In a join communique distributed here, both parties show
their satisfaction for the results of the meeting and said
to be glad about the signing of the said mechanisms, mainly
the integration of Venezuela into the construction of the
Abreu e Lima oil refinery in Pernambuco, a giant that
according to predictions will have a processing capacity of
200,000 barrel of crude daily by 2011.
Regarding the agro-food issue, Chávez und Lula set the
building of a abattoir/ fridge in the Venezuelan state of
Apure to process nearly 500 cattle a day.
Previously, both presidents visited a soja plantation in
Anzoategui, where the technological transference of the
neighboring nation will allow sowing around 741 thousand
acres of the useful leguminous plant to improve milk and
meat output.
Another promoted area was telecommunications, with the
interconnection by fiber optics of points located in Bolivar
and Boa Vista, as well as the Brazilian support to the
adoption by Venezuela of a Digital TV Terrena system.
Health, education, sports, construction and infrastructure,
tourism, border integration, and financing of
social-economic projects were also benefited with the
signing of these collaboration mechanisms.
At the end of the meeting, Chavez appreciated support
received from Lula and Brazil, a country considered the
first economic power in the region and the 8th of the
planet. |
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