The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Nicolas Maduro

The meeting was held in the context of strengthening the map of strategic cooperation between the two countries.

And the Saudi Crown Prince, with the honor that coincided with his inauguration, welcomed the ruler of South America, and received the first fighter and deputy in the National Assembly, Celia Flores, and then shook hands with the rest of the Venezuelan delegation.

It is also composed of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ivan Gil, and the Ministers of Communications, Information, and Oil, Freddy Náñez and Rafael Telecia, respectively, among others.

The South American president and his accompanying delegation arrived at King Abdulaziz International Airport in the early hours of Monday morning, and during the day they held a series of meetings with their counterparts.

Gil said in statements to the press that Maduro and Abdulaziz discussed world news for about two hours, bilateral relations in the fields of trade and investment, and cooperation in the fields of culture, science and technology.

He added that we saw joint projects in the field of oil, gas, petrochemicals, infrastructure, agriculture and tourism, and they reviewed the entire cooperation agenda.

The Bolivarian Foreign Minister pointed out that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is one of the most important emerging countries in the world, with which Venezuela establishes a historic alliance for diplomatic relations dating back 71 years.

This means that since the coming to power of President Hugo Chavez (1954-2013), a “really very strong” coalition has been formed, which will continue after the meeting of the leaders.

He also referred to his meeting with his counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, which he described as fruitful.

He announced that they had agreed to hold the second joint committee in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, in the last quarter of this year, in addition to drawing up a road map for further unification of the two peoples.

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