The President of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodriguez, leads a bilateral meeting in Caracas with the government authorities from Burkina Faso. teleSUR
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00:00We are live in Caracas.
00:07The President of the National Assembly, Jorge RodrĂguez, is holding a bilateral meeting
00:13with authorities representing the country of Burkina Faso, this African country which
00:18in the recent years has played a strong struggle against its former colonial power, France,
00:23as it changed government, and today Burkina Faso and Venezuela is strengthening their
00:28ties and relations in the context of the international antifascist festival that is
00:36being held and has been reported before, as Venezuela has become a beacon of the struggle
00:42against fascism and imperialist power, a struggle that is very close and well known by the people
00:47of Burkina Faso, who for years have been under the submission to the French colonial power
00:55and the disrespect of their sovereignty and territorial integrity.
00:59His live images as the President of the National Assembly, Jorge RodrĂguez of Venezuela, strengthen
01:04the ties of solidarity and cooperation as in this bilateral meeting of exchange with
01:10authorities and representatives of the African nation of Burkina Faso.
01:15All this comes in the context where all these international delegations were present here
01:19in Caracas for the swearing-in ceremony of President Nicolás Maduro for the next term,
01:27for this term that just recently began, 2025-2031.
01:32I think we just were getting from Caracas straight from Venezuela of this high-level
01:39meeting between the delegation of Burkina Faso and the President of the National Assembly,
01:45Jorge RodrĂguez, here in Caracas, as the nations continue to struggle to work for the
01:54development of continuous cooperation and the struggle against imperialism and fascist
02:01policies.
02:02Burkina Faso is one of the three countries in the Sahel which in these recent years have
02:08begun to struggle for their fight to achieve a true independence from their former colonial
02:14power, France, and with this has happened the demilitarization, the military presence
02:20of the former colonial power has been demanded to withdraw from this French territory that
02:27they accuse the former colonial powers of continually plundering their natural resources
02:32that by right belong to the people of their respective country.
02:39These are the kind of images we are getting from Caracas as the President of the National
02:44Assembly, Jorge RodrĂguez, and these high-level delegations of Burkina Faso meet and they
02:50continue to develop and find common paths forward for development in different sectors
02:57of trade, social sector, industry, agriculture, to find ways, technology and education to
03:04move forward and continue with the strengthening of ties in the struggle, in the world struggle
03:09against neo-colonial policies and...