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Ahmadinejad's Caracas Visit Postponed due Chavez Health
TEHRAN (FNA)- Venezuela and Iran postponed a visit to Caracas on Saturday by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez recovered from a fourth round of cancer treatment.
Venezuelan Foreign Ministry Nicolas Maduro said Chavez and Ahmadinejad would reschedule their meeting.
"We will be waiting for the full recovery schedule for President Hugo Chavez's health so that in the coming weeks, maybe in the coming months, to have our dear brother President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here seeing the realization of the projects we are now agreeing on," Maduro said late Friday.
Officials from both countries on Friday signed cooperation deals on manufacturing, energy, construction and agriculture during talks in Caracas.
Chavez returned on Thursday from Cuba, where he underwent a fourth round of chemotherapy. In June he had surgery in Havana to remove a baseball-sized tumor.
Chavez and Ahmadinejad, who was in the United States for this week's meeting of the UN General Assembly, have developed close commercial and political ties in recent years and their countries are allies in the OPEC group.
Since taking office in 2005, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has expanded Iran's cooperation with many Latin American states, including Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador and Brazil.
But, Iran has grown specially expansive ties with Venezuela, and now the two countries are considered allies in many fields and in all international bodies, specially within the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) which controls the world's oil lifeline.
The strong and rapidly growing ties between Iran and Venezuela have raised eyebrows in the US and its western allies since Tehran and Caracas have forged an alliance against the imperialist and colonialist powers and are striving hard to reinvigorate their relations with the other independent countries which pursue a line of policy independent from the US.
The close ties between Chavez and Ahmadinejad have exacerbated tensions between Caracas and Washington.
"While imperialism and its criminal elites have declared war on the Muslim people since more than 10 years ago, we in the Bolivarian Revolution, led by President Chavez, declare our love for the culture of Muslim people, all their history, and declare our eternal brotherhood," Maduro said.
Venezuelan Foreign Ministry Nicolas Maduro said Chavez and Ahmadinejad would reschedule their meeting.
"We will be waiting for the full recovery schedule for President Hugo Chavez's health so that in the coming weeks, maybe in the coming months, to have our dear brother President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here seeing the realization of the projects we are now agreeing on," Maduro said late Friday.
Officials from both countries on Friday signed cooperation deals on manufacturing, energy, construction and agriculture during talks in Caracas.
Chavez returned on Thursday from Cuba, where he underwent a fourth round of chemotherapy. In June he had surgery in Havana to remove a baseball-sized tumor.
Chavez and Ahmadinejad, who was in the United States for this week's meeting of the UN General Assembly, have developed close commercial and political ties in recent years and their countries are allies in the OPEC group.
Since taking office in 2005, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has expanded Iran's cooperation with many Latin American states, including Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador and Brazil.
But, Iran has grown specially expansive ties with Venezuela, and now the two countries are considered allies in many fields and in all international bodies, specially within the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) which controls the world's oil lifeline.
The strong and rapidly growing ties between Iran and Venezuela have raised eyebrows in the US and its western allies since Tehran and Caracas have forged an alliance against the imperialist and colonialist powers and are striving hard to reinvigorate their relations with the other independent countries which pursue a line of policy independent from the US.
The close ties between Chavez and Ahmadinejad have exacerbated tensions between Caracas and Washington.
"While imperialism and its criminal elites have declared war on the Muslim people since more than 10 years ago, we in the Bolivarian Revolution, led by President Chavez, declare our love for the culture of Muslim people, all their history, and declare our eternal brotherhood," Maduro said.
