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Algeria announces flight service to Caracas during Maduro’s visit to AlgiersF

Posted On 10 June 2022

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Algeria and Venezuela agreed Thursday to boost their economic cooperation, as President Nicolas Maduro visited his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune. “We have agreed to reinforce economic cooperation between our countries,” Tebboune said at a joint press conference broadcast by state TV after their meeting. He also announced that direct flights would soon be launched between Algiers and Caracas.

Maduro said he was “very happy about this decision” and added that both governments wished to work together more  closely, particularly on oil and gas. Both countries depend heavily on energy exports and are members of the OPEC oil cartel.

Maduro had arrived overnight from Ankara, where he had sought to woo investors with talk of his country’s rich oil, gas and  gold reserves.  His visit to Algeria comes as some two dozen leaders have descended on Los Angeles for US President Joe Biden’s Summit of the Americas, to which the leftist Venezuelan was among those not invited.

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