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Chavez En Route to Moscow
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez departs for a grand foreign tour, which major portion will be devoted to Russia. But Chavez first meets with Cuba’s leader Raul Castro and that get-together is slated for today.
In Cuba, Venezuela’s president also intends to see Fidel Castro, who hasn’t shown oneself for quite a long time. After Cuba, Chavez will go to Beijing and Moscow. The president is going to visit one more city in Russia, but the name of that city hasn’t been added to the official agenda.
The trip will finalize at the end of this week by a short-time stay in Paris by invitation of France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy and by the visit to Portugal. In Paris, Chavez will canvass the vital issues related to Europe and the world in general, focusing, amid other things, on bilateral relations of France and Venezuela.
The plans are that Chavez will ink energy agreements in Moscow.
Chavez pledged a few days earlier that his country would set up a joint venture with Russia to make drilling equipment for oil fields. According to Chavez, they are willing to produce oil production equipment in Venezuela.
Three big agreements of Venezuela’s state-run PDVSA and Russia’s TNK-BP, LUKOIL and Gazprom were sealed in Moscow in July, during the previous visit of Chavez.
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