With the arrival of 80 tons of merchandise from Venezuela to the island of Aruba, the resumption of commercial relations between both countries was made official yesterday after four years without commercial activity between the parties.
The governor of the state of Falcón (northwest) and national leader of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Víctor Clark, declared to local media: “Today we see materialized the resumption of export relations from the Paraguaná Peninsula to the island of Aruba”.
Clark specified that the above is part of the foreign policy of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who is resuming diplomatic relations with different nations under the premise of a “diplomacy of peace”.
Since February 2019, the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire, part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, did not recognize the legally constituted authorities in Caracas.
However, in recent months, both parties have expressed the need and willingness to resume relations in the different areas of cooperation, and today, the re-establishment of commercial ties by sea has materialized with the arrival of 80 tons of Venezuelan foodstuffs to Aruba.
“In Venezuela, we have the capacities to cover the internal demand of products from the islands, and for this, Falcón plays a key role due to its strategic location at the Caribbean Sea entrance, ” declared Clark.
He stressed that producers, exporters, traders, enter,epreneurs, and shipping agents have the full support of the national and regional government. At the same time, he called on Venezuelan productive sectors to join exports.
The Prime Minister of Aruba, Evelyn Wever-Croes, headed the ceremony of reception of the vessels that imply the re-establishment of the links.
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