Africa Takes Solid Steps Towards Global Integration and Justice: President Maduro
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. X/ @unaguara20
February 17, 2025 Hour: 2:37 pm
The Bolivarian leader reaffirmed his commitment to South-South cooperation.
On Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro congratulated Angolan President João Lourenço after he assumed, for the first time, the rotating Presidency of the African Union (AU).
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“Mother Africa is taking firm steps toward integration and global justice. We reaffirm our commitment to South-South cooperation and to deepening the ties between Venezuela and Angola,” he said.
“May your leadership at the helm of the AU promote peace, justice, and prosperity for humanity. Success in this historic mission!” the Bolivarian leader emphasized.
On Saturday, Lourenço received the rotating AU presidency from Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani during the AU’s annual ordinary summit of Heads of State and Government.
The Angolan leader advocated for making international partners understand “the importance and advantage of cooperating with a developed, industrialized Africa, capable of overcoming hunger, poverty, misery, and unemployment.”
Lourenço also underscored that this is the first time Angola—one of the oil powerhouses of Sub-Saharan Africa—assumes the “important responsibility of guiding the continent’s destiny” over the next twelve months.
On Monday, Maduro also congratulated Djibouti’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, who was elected on Saturday in Addis Ababa as the new president of the AU Commission.
“Under the reaffirmed, steadfast position of our brotherly peoples in the Global South-South agenda, and in the ongoing efforts of Africa and Venezuela for their development, I salute and congratulate Mahamoud Ali Youssouf on assuming the AU Commission Presidency,” the Venezuelan president said.
“He is an undisputed leader with crystal-clear vision. We exist, and we stand united! His appointment is clear evidence of the steps toward integration, justice, and a multicentric and multipolar world, where our peoples continue to be the authors of our own history. Long live the brotherhood between Venezuela and Mother Africa!” Maduro added.
Djiboutian Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf obtained 33 out of 49 votes and will succeed Chadian Moussa Faki Mahamat, who is completing his second four-year term at the helm of the AU Commission.
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Source: EFE
