Chavez forges new-oil based partnership with Angola
Sep 01, 2006 02:00 AM
Chavez said that he wanted to open an embassy in the Angolan capital shortly, adding that it was "a priority of
ours."
Venezuela is now the fifth largest oil exporter in the world, producing 3.27 mm bpd while Angola, already Sub-Saharan
Africa's biggest exporter after Nigeria, is on course to produce 2 mm bpd by 2007. The two leaders were expected to
hold another round of talks later.
Angolan officials said prior to the visit that the two leaders also planned to discuss the situation in the Middle
East.
Chavez arrived in Angola the day after a trip to Damascus where he met fellow US arch-foe President Bashar al-Assad
and pledged to "reject the American empire's imperialism and attempts at hegemony."
