As part of the cooperation between the Venezuelan state and the United Nations, the Office for Consular Relations and the Vice-ministry for Multilateral Affairs of the Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs are making visits to border crossing points and Points of Comprehensive Social Assistance (PASI), informed Eulalia Tabares, director general of Consular Relations.
Tabares pointed out that these visits are being paid to strengthen services to protect children and adolescents in mobility.
“We have already visited Táchira and Zulia states. We met with Governor Omar Prieto and Protector Freddy Bernal (…) We inspected border areas and child mobility, assessed the dynamic there and how to improve processes,” she explained.
Likewise, Tabares stressed they have managed to incorporate all the institutions they had previously visited to strengthen their joint work.
Venezuela’s director general of Consular Relations also said they are paying a second visit, together with authorities from Bolívar and Delta Amacuro states, to oversee the irregular migratory flow to Trinidad and Tobago. Their agenda includes addressing human trafficking and migrant smuggling in these two states, located in Venezuela’s north and southeast.
In this regard, Tabares explained that their aim is “to guarantee children have proper, valid documents and oversee the situation of civil registration offices to strengthen them,” in the company of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and thus identify weaknesses and reinforce spaces together with the Councils for the Protection of Children and Adolescents.