Signing of agreements between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago is lost from sight as a message of peace for the Caribbean

This Ministry of Popular Power of the Office of the Presidency and Monitoring of Government Management release was published using machine translation.

MPP Press- Office (Ingrid Carvajal Arroyo / 09/20/2023).- The National President, Nicolás Maduro Moros highlighted that the signing of agreements between Venezuela and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago will be to work on the Dragon gas field, a field located to the northwest of the Paria Peninsula, in the state of Sucre, maritime border with the Caribbean island.

At the event that was attended by the entire Council of sectoral vice presidents, the National President, through Stuart Young, Minister of Energy and Energy Industries of Trinidad and Tobago, sent a warm and fraternal hug of brotherhood from Venezuela to the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Keith Rowley.

"We are finally taking a gigantic step," said President Nicolás Maduro, highlighting the message: "to tell you that we are achieving it, that we are going to achieve it and we are going to move forward together as good neighbors and brothers."

He considered that the agreement signed to sell gas to the world "is lost from sight as a message of peace, complementarity, cooperation, solidarity, sovereignty, exercised and shared as a message of peace for the entire Caribbean, it is something extraordinary," he said.

He confessed his apprenticeship with Commander Hugo Chávez, given that the historical leader of the Bolivarian Revolution "dreamed of this integration, union of the Caribbean and that is why he founded Petrocaribe, which played a stellar role in the history of human solidarity."

He highlighted that the sanctions -imposed by the United States- prevented Petrocaribe from continuing, and in that context he stated: "Petrocaribe returns, let the world know that Petrocaribe returns and energy cooperation for security and energy sovereignty in the Caribbean returns and with more." strength now, because it is with own effort.

In that context, he considered: "Step by step, little by little, we are going far," while explaining some details of the agreement signed: "putting technology, pipelines, to start producing gas in Venezuelan seas, is an immense message of peace , it's going to turn out well and it's going to generate resources, wealth, to invest in our towns."

In this regard, he highlighted the gas blocks that Venezuela has been organizing throughout the Caribbean and added: "we have internal legislation, in accordance with the Constitution, for great advantages to investors and we are ready to move forward with all countries that want to invest. , with all the companies in the world that want to invest".

China comes with large investments to produce gas in the Caribbean

He highlighted the importance of having as a friend "one of those leaders who mark an era for 100 years, President Xi Jinping," recalling that a week ago, on a Thursday like today, he held a meeting with the leader of the Asian giant, to whom he explained "how Venezuela is certifying its gas reserves, and the gas reserves in the Caribbean are placing us at this moment, with the studies and research already advanced, in fourth place in gas reserves in the world," he pointed out. .

"We already have the first oil reserve in the world and we are recovering the productive capacity and we are going to fully recover it with our own efforts. Now we are opening investments at the highest level to advance in all the gas blocks and they are coming," he stated, pointing out who spoke with President Xi Jinping "and China is coming with great investments and great technology to produce gas in the Venezuelan Caribbean," he said.

He explained: "in a win-win relationship, of shared benefits, of respect for the sovereignty of Venezuela."

He added that there are also European investors who are already present in Venezuela, whom he welcomed, "there are investors from all over the world, welcome," he added, recognizing that the greatest joy, motivation and energy "to continue fighting for our Venezuela beloved, for the great Homeland, is this agreement that we are signing today," he pointed out.

Signing of agreements is a signal for the Caribbean

"One of the most important gas fields in the eastern Venezuelan Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela, we are going to produce gas together," he said, agreeing that it is a signal for the 18 Caribbean states.

Likewise, he pointed out that the issue of the shared gas fields on the maritime border of Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela, the Loran-Manatee fields, is pending, "it is the next step Stuart, tell Rowley," he said when giving instructions to the also president of PDVSA, Rafael Tellechea, that "the next thing we have to sign since it was established in the agreement between both countries, signed by Commander Hugo Chávez at the time with the former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, are the shared fields ".

In this regard, he indicated: "the large transnational companies where there are shared oil and gas fields, seek to antagonize countries, seek to make countries go to war, and there are countries in the world that have gone to war over an oil field, by a gas field. Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela, no."

He highlighted that Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela signed in peace, with the spirit of good neighborliness, the shared Loran-Manatee field, in the Caribbean Sea.