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Venezuela will deal today with "the continuity of Petrocaribe"

Ambassador Castelar reported they will hold the IX Petrocaribe Summit

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Venezuela will deal today with the continuity of Petrocaribe
SANTO DOMINGO. The Venezuelan ambassador in the country, Alberto Castelar, announced yesterday that at the Extraordinary Summit of Chiefs of State and of governments of Petrocaribe, to be held today in Venezuela, they will deal with "the continuity of the Petrocaribe agreement which will be great news."

Castelar said that the meeting which will be addressed by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, they are going to guarantee that "Petrocaribe is going to be maintained and continued." He said that the government of his country will propose that the Petrocaribe agreement be extended to other levels in relation to the countries that make up the agreement. "We have plans of advancing and converting Petrocaribe into a great economic zone, together with ALBA and Mercosur, that advances towards other areas of culture, education and commerce," said Castelar.

The diplomat stated: "The focal point (north) of all of our region, is not in the North, it is in the South. And tomorrow (today) this is going to be ratified in the Petrocaribe Summit which is going to be led tomorrow at 10:00 in the morning by our President Nicolas Maduro." Castelar reported, in addition, that the Summit will take place in Caracas at the Chancellery, the Yellow House. "The president is going to present the continuity of Petrocaribe and the strengthening of the economic zone, ALBA, Petrocaribe and Mercosur," he said.

Petrocaribe is an oil agreement through which the Venezuelan government places preferential payment conditions to the Dominican Republic and another 15 Central American and Caribbean countries. Recently, the Directorate of Public Credit reported that the total oil invoice which the country owes is US$98 million.

Ambassador Castelar accompanied yesterday the deputy minister of Education, Luis de León, at a floral offering to commemorate the second anniversary of the death of the former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, at the Simon Bolivar Plaza.

The diplomat stressed the solidarity that exists between both countries, as well as the sentiments of the departed Venezuelan president towards the Dominican Republic.