China will expand cooperation with Venezuela in the fight against Covid-19 - MPPRE

China will expand cooperation with Venezuela in the fight against Covid-19

The People’s Republic of China will expand its medical-technical cooperation towards Venezuela in the coming weeks, in order to continue fighting together the Covid-19 pandemic, said the president of the Asian nation Xi Jinping, during a telephone contact held this Friday with his counterpart, Nicolás Maduro -referred a statement from the People’s Power Ministry for Foreign Relations-. The Chinese president recognized that the measures applied by the Bolivarian Government: the declaration of the health emergency and the social quarantine, have been the most effective in containing the spread of the virus. He expressed that the Asian nation “always opposes foreign interference in Venezuela’s internal affairs and that it advocates full respect for the sovereignty and right to self-determination of the Venezuelan people, without accepting the establishment of preconditions or the imposition by external forces”.
In turn, he reiterated that “China will not change the directive to persist in solidarity and cooperation with Venezuela and will not change its position of supporting the Venezuelan government and people in defense of their national sovereignty and their right to explore their own path of development in accordance to their particularities”.
Presidentes Maduro y Xi Jinping sostienen comunicación telefónica centrada en la cooperación para enfrentar Covid-19
For his part, the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, thanked the Chinese authorities for all the support and solidarity through the provision of medical supplies and the presence in the country of the team of Chinese scientists and specialists sent especially to share their experiences and knowledge with the Venezuelan teams, while highlighting that Venezuela has inspired its decisions in the experience of the Asian nation to face the pandemic. During the conversation, both leaders confirmed their willingness to join forces to build a more caring world, focused on “building a new society that overcomes all the inequalities of neo-colonialism and savage capitalism”. On March 30, a delegation of specialists arrived in Venezuela with the aim of contributing to the containment of the Covid-19 pandemic, made up of epidemiologists, specialists in intensive medicine and even traditional Chinese medicine. So far, three shipments have been received in the nation with supplies and medical material from the People’s Republic of China, which after months of battle has managed to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.