Caracas. - People’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Nicolás Maduro stated that the Third Petrocaribe Summit of Heads of State and/or Government would help improve energy and social cooperation mechanisms, describing the summit as an ideal scenario to discuss a proposal to create the Caribbean Energy Security Treaty benefiting Latin American and Caribbean people. 

Upon his arrival in the Simón Bolívar Hall, headquarters of the People’s Ministry of Energy and Petroleum and Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), Maduro voiced optimism following the Second Petrocaribe Conference of Experts and Ministers. He added that important decisions would be made in the presidential meeting, in order to make headway “in this new era that has began for Latin America and the Caribbean.”

“The Caribbean, along with South America, is moving forward to energy union among our peoples as the cornerstone of the great economic, social, cultural and political union emerging in this new era. Latin America and the Caribbean have seized control of their future like never before. Venezuela is the epicenter of hope of our peoples and of concrete advances in terms of guaranteeing energy security for 100 years, the economic stability, social development and political union of our nations,” said Maduro.