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Vega Supports Maduro At NAM Summitt
posted (September 20, 2016)
Agriculture Minister Gaspar Vega and Economic Development Minister Erwin Contreras just wrapped up at the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Venezuela. Vega, who also used the opportunity to meet with embattled President Nicolas Maduro, praised the Petrocaribe initiative as quote, "regionalist, internationalist, pro-people and pro-poor."

The Non-Aligned Movement is a group of 120 nations which is not formally aligned with any major power bloc. The group issued a 190 page statement at the end of the two-day meeting urging world powers - especially the USA - not to meddle in other countries' affairs and voicing concern over violence in Syria, Iraq and the Palestinian Territories.

The summit also bolstered President Maduro who has been isolated internationally and under intense pressure domestically.

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