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[July 2009]
Russian-Venezuelan Cooperation to Include Ceramics
ITAR-TASS has reported that the whole range of agreements seeking to expand bilateral economic cooperation were signed during a visit to Venezuela by the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, who rounded off his visit to the country on Monday.
At the Miraflores Palace, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Igor Sechin and members of the Russian delegation attended the signing ceremony of an agreement on founding a joint venture between Gazprom and the Venezuelan state-owned petroleum corporation Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) in order to provide services in the oil and gas industry, a supplement to the memorandum on mutual understanding between Rostechnologii state corporation represented by Prominvest and PDVSA on creating a joint venture in order to solve ecological problems and provide services in the oil and gas sector.
It was also reported that the sides adopted a charter for establishing a joint venture for pottery ware production between Russia’s Ruskaolin and the Guayana Venezuelan corporation that envisages the construction of five pottery plants.
Igor Sechin said relations between the two countries were built “on a long-term basis with due account of mutual interests”. The vice-premier expressed gratitude to “Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Venezuelan colleagues for the contribution they are making in the development of strategic relations between Venezuela and Russia for the benefit of the two peoples”.
Meanwhile President Chávez praised highly the results of the visit of the Russian delegation headed by Igor Sechin. “Today’s meeting with Russian Vice-Premier Igor Sechin reaffirms the active dialogue at a high political level, which was reached during last November’s visit of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to Venezuela,” he said.
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