“Now, we can see in world's horizon a new world, a pluripolar one, and that is the world we need,” said the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, in a press conference that took place in Pretoria, South Africa.
In his first official visit to South Africa, Venezuelan Head of State said: “We come here to give our hands and show the biggest will of approach and cooperation with South African people.”
“We want to give to this nation a really strategic level, deeply strategic. It was about time, the world keeps moving, world's dynamism forces us, challenges us. We were lucky that the pretension of imposing a single model, an unipolar hegemony, came down,” Chávez stressed.
In this regard, Venezuelan President emphasized that “the bipolar world was something horrible for third world countries, but the short unipolar era that is about to finish was even worse. Nowadays, we are in the middle of crisis galloping around the world - financial, economic, food, energy, ecological, and moral crisis. It is a systemic crisis, a general crisis.”
Therefore, Chávez pointed out that for Latin American and African people “it is essential, and urgent, third world countries get united. We can not waste a single day or a second.” In this regard, Chávez added that an example of this union “is the way how South Africa and Venezuela are joining today to start to elaborate a new strategic agenda, implying a real strategic change on international affairs to accompany the new liberation that is taking place.”
“There is a liberation process taking place in South America, in Latin America. A real revolution is being carried out. It is not the riffles revolution or the guerrillas of 40 or 50 years ago,” he commented. “We are now millions of men and women, workers, young people, students, indians, mixed-racial people, whites. We have awaken, the peoples have awaken from their lethargy. There is a peaceful revolution taking place, a revolution that is part of world's dynamism,” he added.
Moreover, Chávez said that “Africa also have raising movements, union and liberation projects because only united we can be free, and only free we can fully develop ourselves ... this is a happy day to us, a beautiful day, a historic day,” Chávez stressed. He explained that with the signed agreements between both countries “we have started to elaborate a strategic agenda, a Framework Agreement, agreements on energy and oil. We want to carry all this out as soon as possible.”
“We want that South African oil company, Petrosa, go to Venezuela right away to start to work in joint with us at the Orinoco Oil Belt, which is the biggest oil belt of the world,” he added.
In addition, Chávez said “the same way Venezuela has sent oil, mainly, to United States and other northern developed countries for the last one hundred years, we can send it to our brothers of the south. It was about time.”
“It is justice, there is a wide range of cooperation that is starting to open up. South Africa's location is strategical. Five years ago, we started to open our path towards Asia, it will be wonderful the day that the first Venezuelan oil tanker stops here to give oil to South Africa,” Chávez stressed.
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