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00:03Hello, you're watching Telesur English. We're going now live to Venezuela as the National
00:07Assembly is holding an extraordinary session in support of the energetic agreement between
00:13Venezuela and the United States. Let's hear. To the effective comprehension of the energetic
00:21potential and economic development for Venezuela, it is to continue fueling the petroleum of
00:36Venezuela that was affected by the sanctions and also the international cooperation having
00:42in account that Venezuela have its energetic potential and also geographic position and
00:52also the experience of the working class and the international part supports with financing
01:01this agreement between the Bolivar and Republic of Venezuela and also the government of United
01:07States means and important to the productive and also for this project. It is an operational
01:17scheme that holds the property and absolute sovereignty of the Bolivarian Republic in the petroleum and
01:29oil reserves and also guarantees the production and also the incomes of the Bolivarian Republic
01:37of Venezuela of the hydrocarbon law with the purpose of to turn Venezuela into an energetic first to support
01:55the bilateral agreement between the bilateral agreement between Venezuela and the United States as a strategic
02:03implement to continue the economic recovery and also the technological and productive development for the nation in the middle and
02:14a long space of time and also to ratify the sovereignty and the sovereignty of the Venezuelan state over its
02:22resources and also ensuring that the
02:26the this will ensure a just income and also for the health and also public services.
02:35Third, to recognize the diplomatic effort and the political of both nations that made possible to transform this difference of
02:47cooperation in a respectful way toward the economic and initial resources of our people.
02:54And also to maintain mechanisms of information on the advances of the bilateral agreement and in conformity with the constitution.
03:07Fifth, to locate this present agreement in the official Gazette of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and also in conformity
03:17with what is established in the interior of the, this was firm,
03:24in the executive palace from the National Assembly at the day 1st of September of 2026 at the 216 years
03:34of the independence. Thank you so much.
03:38Here we were also hearing those were the words of the Deputy Miguel Pérez Abad in the second point of
03:47the legislative agenda in this afternoon where it's been presented before the Deputy's Camera of an agreement as part of
03:58the agreement between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the United States. Let's hear now.
04:04At the President of the National Assembly Jorge Rodriguez, it is very important that with this binational agreement. The Acting
04:14President of Venezuela, Delfios Rodriguez, made also statements that has to be with this important agreement in the petróleums. Let's
04:27hear now.
04:28the president of the National Assembly Jorge Rodriguez we are hearing also
04:34another deputy this National Assembly where today it is presented to us the
04:43agreement the energetic agreement between Venezuela and the United States
04:49for their consideration and approval today with the parents of the presidents I
05:02want to address from here to the honorable deputies but also to all
05:14Venezuelan people it is a day it is important day today it is today we are
05:30discussing and approving the energetic agreement in the whole world it is talking
05:38is talking about this energetic agreement yesterday the Democratic Action Party I
05:49rule as a general secretary today I come here to say that we support it and we
06:01approve it and with proud I come here because this a government of my party it
06:12is nationalized the petroleum industry and is continuing the petroleum industry to
06:20the democratic action of the Venezuelan people and today
06:29who comes here to oppose to that agreement signed between President Donald Trump and
06:37the acting and the doctor Del Cialoina Rodriguez whoever opposes it is playing
06:49against the interest of Venezuela it is an agreement where the Venezuelan state it is going to sell 1.5
07:03billion of petroleum barrels daily and where the Venezuelan state it is going to be injected almost two
07:15two thousand two hundred and nine thousand million dollars here many sectors and many
07:26organic political organizations and many have been complaining from the absence of some of the services it is
07:38being asked the raise in salaries it is being criticized the bad state of the
07:49highways and the streets and we talk and we complain about the medical service and
07:56education I come here to say anyone that we that today we have to be proud of Venezuela
08:08to have that the petroleum down there because with him down there we didn't manage anything the
08:18petroleum taking it out of there we are going to have more value and we are going to resolve the
08:27problems I ask to mr. acting mrs acting president of the Republic of Venezuela that this
08:37immense city of economic resources to come here it must be to improve all these services that many of us
08:48have
08:48reclaimed when whoever opposes that to Venezuela to be injected these resources to resolve the problems
08:58to me is I do not doubt that they want they do not want to be infected so they can
09:05continue to
09:06criticize the failed services that we did not have houses that the education is not worth it no and that
09:14the
09:14Venezuelan people knows that here is democratic action and is this national assembly ready to support with a very
09:26country we found this project so we can have all the problems of this is an agreement signed
09:35between two countries that belongs to the American continent I ask to all the political organizations to all
09:51the groups to all the economic sectors to all in social sectors to everyone that we support from now
09:59this agreement that favors only the Venezuelan people this is all mr. president we also were hearing those were the
10:12words of the deputy Bernabé Gutiérrez in the second point of the legislative agenda when it is being presented
10:20an energy agreement debates a project in support of the energy agreement with the United States this was
10:29presented by the deputy Miguel Pérez Abad and he was stipulating what is being this project puts out for the
10:40Venezuelan people also as an instrument strategic instrument of high impact to continue the economic recovery and also the
10:49technological development of the technological development of the nation in the middle and long time
10:59today we are going to debate we are debating an agreement that it is going to have enormous historic implications
11:10to our country and it is already signed an energetic agreement
11:15and in a context of a national and international context extraordinary of extraordinary complexities it is called to generate a
11:29very important change in terms of development of the national economy and so is that these are
11:39countries with the countries with the country with a revolutionary force and socialist force that economic development naturally is going
11:46to translate in the well-being for the Venezuelan people this is an agreement that in the first place
11:56this need to be ratified in a categorical way the point to give the inconditional support
12:07national support to our acting president delci rodriguez in the subscription of this agreement
12:15this point is the exercise of the sovereignty of the national sovereignty over the natural resources and this is nothing
12:30less than the petroleum and natural resources in whom they all
12:36the whole story has turned around for more than 100 years with this agreement
12:44with this agreement it is planning the inversion development for more than 100 thousand billion dollars for a capacity of
12:55production of 65 thousand million barrels of petroleum
13:02the here is not means the fact that we are sovereign and we execute that sovereign over the petroleum
13:10the only fact that the fixed as a figure of the negotiation is also expressed who the oil it is
13:21because this is not only the it is just only the payment
13:29the payment that can cells that pays an enterprise to the property of the natural no renovable resource in this
13:40case the Venezuelan petroleum
13:44the petroleum that is not to be a doubt of any nature the petroleum is Venezuelan and we will be
13:52exploding it in the interest of the nation for what it is going to serve that inversion as a result
14:00of the blockade
14:03this blockade here has been an absolute destruction of the productive apparatus and also from the living conditions of the
14:14state that so many work cost us to construct this blockade has cost to so many we have been perceived
14:28to 200 thousand dollars 200 thousand million dollars as a
14:33the only way to us for recover
14:41the only way to us for recover in this way the growing and the home of the productive apparatus is
14:52to reactivate the petroleum industry this is about a petroleum economy it is not another way of moving the petroleum
15:03industry
15:03moving the country and anyway we have to encounter it and we have find it in a way ethically dignified
15:13and sovereign always supported and based on the country of the national constitution and the sacred interest of the homeland
15:25so we will be making important steps toward the reactivation
15:33of the production of the production of the production of the production of the production of the people and because
15:41beyond all the socialist government we have united the great national unity that we have worked so many in against
15:48the blockade and also in function of the productive reactivation to give a well-being to the Venezuelan people
15:58this does not
15:59this does not it is always generated by economic resources so we have always said we have big national resources
16:06and those national resources we have to transform it in economic richness and the only way is to do it
16:13with investment that investment that we can now finance for all the effects of the blockade of the economic
16:23the economic blockade all these problems electrical problems of water of salaries of employment of general services of the educational
16:35services and also of health services this deterioration we can only stop it as we are doing with the resources
16:46that we generate from the economic development and also precisely
16:52this agreement this agreement it is going to be translated in a very important impact in that sense and we
17:01can observe it that we are going to have more than two hundred thousand million dollars to be obtained from
17:14the investment
17:19this agreement
17:20but the only fact of the investment it is going to generate and multiplying effects very important in the economy
17:26they are going to we are going to have investments in with the technology with the this is going to
17:35understand and very important and we are going to guarantee that this is is to
17:43who can oppose to who can oppose to who can oppose to an agreement only the enemies of the homeland
17:48the ones that were also talking about military invasions imperial sanctions for the destruction of the economy that they did
18:01not have any interest the destiny of the country always based on the calculus of how to
18:08to come and also put their hands to the power
18:11to the power trying of the most miserable way of to the venezuelan people they are only trying to generate
18:19opinions in different ways we are going to the approval of this project to also support the government of our
18:30acting president
18:30and there's radios and the national assembly it is a very important force it is the political scenario of our
18:38country but the most important is the people
18:44the true source of sovereignty is a democracy so we have an enormous responsibility in putting every one of the
18:55achievements of this in very important
19:00and energetic agreement to all borders of the countries of the people can understand that this is a dignified government
19:09that sees for the future of the homeland and this is an assembly that support that effort of the nation
19:24and lastly i want to say no one it is going to be concerned that we are adopting these measures
19:31when here was
19:33predicted the true nationalization of the petroleum industry for our unforgettable commander chavez
19:48we export to the united states one and a half million barrels per day because this is the world today
19:56as they say
19:58globalized or internalized that the big they are exchanging was and services there is no problem for us we don't
20:07have any
20:08consequences to have relations with any country because us inside of that relation we can sacrifice not even one millimeter
20:19of the sovereign of the national sovereignty
20:21and additionally when it was developed in a big scale on national basis and also national interest the petroleum orinoco
20:34petroleum
20:36these were transnational enterprises north american enterprises that of course have to be subordinated to the national law so we
20:45are going to put an enormous enthusiasm
20:48in optimism to toward the future with this great energetic agreement that it is going to bring well-being for
20:58the people prosperity salaries
21:02electrical service and education and health it is going to develop the productive forces we are going to also guarantee
21:15that these are being in our country
21:18and with this i will end that is going to create conditions for the sovereignty that we are fighting and
21:26we are always continue to fight it is going to be more
21:30more strong than ever we are going to do we were also hearing the deputy jesus faria on purpose of
21:39this energetic agreement by national by venezuela and the united states this agreement has been presented in this plenary in
21:47the
21:48this day it is also highlights the sovereignty deputy colleagues colleagues in the first place we want to coincide with
22:02the one who presented the project and with other the deputies that talk on the importance in this binational agreement
22:12this is a vital importance for the future of venezuela
22:16venezuela because it is accepting our destiny as an economic society to also bind the petroleum to our development because
22:29it is precisely that the element that is fueling our economy and also we read ratified the scale and the
22:41search of our international assets
22:44in this contract so these contracts that are being presented as the most important petroleum contract in history were again
22:53to venezuela as a partner from the united states and the united states as a principal partner of the of
23:00venezuela in a petroleum
23:03venezuela because it is not a little for more for a country that have more than 300 billion barrels of
23:13petroleum in the venezuela geography so i without any doubt it is a motive for us it is really important
23:28that what is being important that what is being produced this agreement it will be manifested in that every dollar
23:38that it is injected by the petroleum it can also be better for the for the venezuelan people and also
23:49for all the services in general so we are not opposed
23:55we are not opposed to the first of this agreement presented but we can subscribe mr president and all the
24:05deputy an agreement that we do not know we accept the good faith of the presidents that subscribe we accept
24:15that those that have made this
24:18this principal text have made in function of the interest of the both nations but us as deputies elected by
24:30the people have the necessity and the obligation to know what in the rights it is known as the little
24:38letters what in the law it is known and in function of the transparency it is
24:50we mandate that we can be delivered the whole letter of this contract so be the techniques
25:00that evaluate the proper necessities of the agreement puts it is a long time it is a very
25:12important quantity that we recognize and is come back to the petroleum of this country so mr.
25:22president in the name of our fraction we announced that despite we are agreed to the agreement we can
25:32vote it until it is completely published we have to know it after it is signed and how our sincere
25:43opinion with all the elements on the table not to alterate the contract but also to give clarity
25:52to the people and is is in a big way what the Venezuelan people is demanded and we think that
25:59the Venezuelan people is right is not to have because it is wants to know all the details of
26:07this agreement what has and also sign us so very in a very respectful way knowing the origin of this
26:16contract and also understanding the necessities that has Venezuela to recover the economic apparatus we
26:27what we are all substantive to vote the text until we have all the details that are going to mean
26:39this our
26:40future but also the future of Venezuela this is all thank you so much president
26:57I have the right to work I want to make clear this National Assembly is not putting in discussion the
27:09bilateral agreement between the two because these haven't been signed of whom have to do the two
27:18governments the government of the United States and the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
27:24this National Assembly it is according to support the announcement of the binational and this
27:34agreement it is to put the debate and also establish some relations between us and with the people of
27:43Venezuela in this point that the these will be signed we can have the debate here in the National
27:51Assembly so we gladly can share the immense benefits on advantage that means to all the people of
27:59Venezuela for the women and men the signing of this binational agreement first the first thing
28:09article 12 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela the mineral of the hydrocarbons
28:16whatever it is their nature existence in the national territory by the territorial sea and also the economic
28:25exclusive zone belongs to the Republic are well are goods of public dominion and also only enable and the
28:38schools are was of the public dominion the Constitution we have defended even with
28:46our lives the Constitution we were to the streets to ask the people to vote and also the Constitution
28:52that has been also attacked for one the ones that are now signaling that this agreement can be also
29:02to violently the sovereignty because have seen
29:14to put a microscope and study
29:22this agreement does not have anything esoteric it has nothing from the other planet and it is not
29:32anything that is principally based in the reform of the hydrocarbon laws that you voted
29:38unanimity unanimously in the past February that is contemplating forms of relations
29:47economical relations productive relations the famous we have seen the participation contracts the that is not anything that
29:59that PDVSA will be associated with transnational companies so they can put out petroleum
30:07that is what have 120 years doing in Venezuela it is just that you know how many we have signed
30:18these 17 fields with the government of the United States of America 50 contracts and it's in we are going
30:27to sign 15 more
30:29because that is also because that is also of the consequences that has said direct consequence of this binational agreement
30:35that the telephones haven't stopped ring using also phones haven't stopped ringing and everyone have want to come to sign
30:50contracts the Europeans the Asians the United States of America
30:59because this transfund of the discussion it is which is our political object in Venezuela
31:08there is two political blocks for more than 25 years that is two political there are two political blocks that
31:18have used the resources precisely to stop the advance of the other
31:28and if something has characterized the block that I belong to if something have characterized this Bolivarian revolution from the
31:40beginning who else is worried for the majority forgotten majorities in more than 100 years of past
31:53from the first
31:54from the first moment that we have baptized the first women of Venezuela the first Venezuela mass and as was
32:01also eradicated the analfabetism we have the sign of these times in 1999 this was a sign to incorporate and
32:13also democratize the
32:18and we can spend hours of housing health education food culture for me that I am a very passionate man
32:32about literature I do not know many governments of the world that have
32:38and also published six million for of the Quixote so the people can access to the universal culture universities schools
32:53schools
33:02production that when Hugo Chavez was asked when the object that had the president Chavez was to
33:16to fill the Venezuelan petroleum so who are you going to
33:24to sell the accident of this production he answered to the United States of America
33:31it wasn't us the Bolivarian we haven't denied to sell even one barrel to the United States of America and
33:41in that process of confrontation I feel that you the different sectors of the opposition have passed for different stages
33:54is there have been moments that we can also get close of dialogue but mostly part of the time the
34:06objective has been
34:11a devil the equation to do not feel we I have not necessarily been talking to you because for the
34:21worst it is to the people of Venezuela it is going to be worse to the Bolivarian government of Venezuela
34:29so the object is to subtract to take away the people all that he can
34:37and they can have it is a devil the creation from the social missions you were against where they appeared
34:48that the big company to alphabetize all Venezuela even with the earthquake you said being the this is the most
35:02terrible double earthquake you said being the this is the most terrible
35:07earthquake that has occurred in the human history the most also the most lethal you said that those buildings
35:15you said that those buildings fall down because they were of the great Venezuelan mission and they were constructed by
35:25private construction agencies they were constructed build by the same buildings that they were constructed on the
35:36of private companies of private companies this being a constant
35:44agreed and also agreed and also agreed and also agreed that they celebrate this agreement for the consequences that it
35:54that it is had to our future of these discussions and all the agreements
36:01but there is a fraction a political fraction that the the first thing they did was to lie so they
36:11can find the form of these things it is similar to they provoked when they ask for sanctions and blockades
36:22that so so damage have caused to us and they must
36:27have caused the being that for the diplomacy way of peace the acting president
36:34and the president and the president Donald Trump have accomplished this agreement to explode these 716 petroleum camps that is
36:47going to produce one million more of barrels and that they are going to promote the injection of the oil
36:57the country of the country of more than two hundred thousand billion dollars these two because in the next days
37:04because the funds haven't stopped ringing or the Spanish are going to be left out or the Italians or the
37:13French or the Emirates or the Cathery people they are going to be left out
37:23in a context of the in a geopolitical context that without any without any context this favors the context of
37:36of production of petroleum to the Republic of Venezuela the principal producer of gas in Europe is and the Strait
37:48of foremost is a very complicated passage
37:55that the state of the things it is as that petroleum is going under the land I've said many times
38:04and I will say it again because anytime I hear that phrase I am upset we are the principal reserve
38:12of petroleum in the planet we have said it once and once and once and again
38:21we have said it again because how it is going to be good to petroleum under the land to all
38:26the who do wants that these electricity continues to fail to the ones that do not want us to build
38:34those ones that do not build those to we do not give those salaries to the Venezuelan we are going
38:45to be there with all the resources that are going we are going to be there with all the resources
38:48that are going to be there
38:48to produce in these processes of contracting of new petroleum fields. Saudi Arabia is
38:57the second reserve of petroleum and is the first exporter of the world. Iran is the third
39:08and is the eighth country. Canada is the fourth exporter of petroleum in the world. Russia
39:20is the second exporter of petroleum in the world and is the ninth petroleum reserve in the world
39:31and it is the third country exporter of petroleum in the world which is the first and is the country
39:42number 10. The number 10 and there are some ones who want that the state of the things continues.
39:54UB in Harvard. Because I do not think that the crisis it is a product of the blockade.
40:16UB in Harvard. And Hamann less because he promoted it. So that happened. And now
40:36and also to be fallen out it is fall out the mask of which were the truth intentions.
40:45He was activated a whole apparatus of to attack the binational but they haven't said anything of
40:56the gigantic gas agreement that Venezuela was also signing with British Petroleum, with Shell,
41:03with Trinidad and Tobago, with Cateri Enterprises and with. So the future of the hydrocarbons is gas
41:12because it is a more clean economy and it is an industry of the commercialization of gas that
41:21immediately activates one of the most important enterprises of the country that it is the production
41:29of fertilizer of the revival of products from the petrochemical industry.
41:39In Venezuela it is directed to be the third or the fourth, the third or the fourth gas reserves of
41:47the planet.
41:48And with gigantic fields that we have an extract not even one molecule. And I've heard very dignified opinions,
42:01for example, with an expert in petroleum that is the opposition. He was minister, he was an expert and has
42:11an absolute position in favor of the opposition.
42:16And he also puts so many things that we are going to be told to be. The jurisdictional security because
42:29this is going to be in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
42:34We, it wasn't us. And so many people voted for that status that defends supposedly the constitution. But at the
42:46same time, it is a truth. It is bad so we can raise our production or raise mandatory.
42:59It is bad to be having 109,000 million investment in dollars because it is going to produce or it
43:13is mandatory to fuel us to the real development that gives well-being to the people.
43:21Some that criticized from the exterior based by national enterprise participated in the cold opened petroleum in the nineties.
43:38There were signed three of the green fields. It was the time that we have in the Orinoco Petroleum Baja.
43:52So they called for the equivalent to the carbon. So it has to cost at the same of carbon.
44:12And the carbon. And the carbon in the properties as a fee, as a fuel, let's have it in the
44:18same price of the seed carbon.
44:21You note of how much were the regulates of the three green fields. One percent. Just the one percent.
44:41In this binational, these are from 16 percent or more that are the same in 34 percent. And I haven't
44:52looked anyone talking about the petroleum opener opening that they were.
44:58No, because it was signing with a multinational that right now is only perceived by the republic that it is
45:13almost.
45:21Venezuela puts what it has. It is the petroleum. The only problem is that when you are moving to there,
45:32you're going to see cow.
45:41Because that petroleum, we have to be under. And also get it, but we don't know that it is. We
45:51know what it is.
45:53Because PDVSA has been doing a very hard job so we can identify those fields and also know clearly what
46:03it is beneath.
46:05One of my secret identity is that I was psychiatric as British Petroleum.
46:15I can say what I was doing there.
46:25Until the British Petroleum wasn't very good. It wasn't doing very good in those fields that they did in the
46:32cold, open petroleum.
46:35Even before they were, the Chavez have come to the power.
46:39That it is not going to happen with these fields because we already know the characteristics and also the way
46:47that they can extract the petroleum.
46:49But can Venezuela in these circumstances? It can't. It can't.
46:56Because it is the truth that the petroleum produces money.
47:00But to start producing petroleum, we have to invest many, many money that Venezuela doesn't have.
47:11It is new technologies, for example, new technologies for the production of the crude.
47:17And also for the fields in the Lake of Maracaibo.
47:26In those fields there is 12,000 million barrels.
47:41That with the adequate technology and with the adequate contracts they are going to be signed and they are going
47:49to extract.
47:50And it is going to be the goodness that the state of Seulia deserves and also the Bolivarian Republic of
47:56Venezuela deserves.
48:00To the ones who dreamed in the perfect past.
48:05The one who have dreamed to the ones who have dreamed without petroleum stays under the land.
48:23Well, start to fall from the trees.
48:26Because what it is coming is petroleum production to a levels we haven't seen.
48:32That what it is coming is that Venezuela is going to be the best economy in the continent.
48:39And what it is going is the recovery of the well-being.
48:43Because who utilizes uses one of those dollars to seize it.
48:50We are going to burn their hands and we are going to put them in jail.
48:55Thank you so much.
48:57We were here in the intervention of the President of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez.
49:03On purpose of this project of support of the energy agreement with the United States and Venezuela.
49:11We must remember that this energy agreement between the Venezuela and the United States government is important.
49:18Due to a new bilateral energy framework between both countries that serves Venezuela's national interest.
49:25And strengthen acting President del C. Rodriguez administration by driving economic revitalization.
49:31And promotes a diplomatic statescraft.
49:33With Red Cross.
49:34With interest in thriving economic慎aso.
49:34With Dr.
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