President Nicolas Maduro (R) meets Algerian Senate speaker Abdelkader
http://www.petroleumafrica.com/venezuela-meets-with-algeria/
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro paid a visit to Algeria this week
and met with Algerian Senate speaker Abdelkader Bensalah to discuss oil
policies. The Algerian presidency said Maduro and his hosts were to
review the situation on world oil markets.
APS, Algeria’s official
news agency, reported that the Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia
and Energy Minister Mustapha Guitouni were also at the meeting.
The
Venezuelan presidency said the talks covered a 2016 OPEC deal to cut
oil production in a bid to boost low crude prices. Following the
meeting, Maduro said there was “a climate favorable to the policy of a
fair price for black gold”.
It said oil sector cooperation between Algiers and Caracas was also on the agenda.
Last
week Maduro revealed that Venezuela planned to “start selling oil, gas
and all other products that Venezuela sells with new currencies,
including the Chinese yuan, the Japanese yen, the Russian ruble, the
Indian rupee among others.
“An economy free from the US imperialist system is possible,” he said during a television
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