The inaugural session of the Namibia-Venezuela Joint Commission of Cooperation (JCC) will take place in Windhoek on Thursday and Friday.

A media statement issued on Tuesday by the Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation’s Executive Director, Penda Naanda, said the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, will co-chair the JCC and lead the Namibian delegation.

Yván Gil Pinto, Minister of People’s Power for Foreign Relations of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, will lead the Venezuelan delegation.

The inaugural session of the JCC is being held in accordance with the cooperation agreement and friendship between the two governments signed in New York on 15 October 1993.

Namibia and Venezuela will be afforded the opportunity to strengthen the relations between them and provide an opportunity to consider new areas of cooperation.

The two countries are expected to expand the agenda of collaboration in key strategic sectors such as energy; agriculture; commerce and industry; arts and culture; education; mining; housing; and electoral processes.

Source: The Namibian Press Agency