Venezuela
Solidarity Committee Formed
A
17-MEMBER Venezuela
Solidarity Committee (VSC) was formally constituted in New Delhi
on June 12, 2013. The meeting was
attended by A B Bardhan, Prakash Karat, Sudhakar Reddy,
Debabrata Biswas, G
Devrajan, Achin Vanaik, Ravi Roy, Nilotpal Basu and Pallab
Sengupta. The committee
was formed with the participant members with this
understanding that it would be
a broadbased committee by accommodating more members from
different sections of
society. The next meeting of the committee will be held at
Ajoy Bhavan on July
19 evening.
The
meeting has
issued the following statement:
“The
Venezuela
Solidarity Committee (VSC) hereby affirms its commitment to
promoting deeper
understanding and friendship between the peoples of India
and the Bolivarian
Republic of Venezuela.
The committee expresses
its solidarity with the ongoing efforts by the people and
government of Venezuela to
create an independent, prosperous, democratic, peaceful and
egalitarian
society. Such support has become all the more necessary in
light of the US
administration’s effort to impugn the
legitimacy of the recent presidential elections in that
country, an electoral
process deemed by international observers including from the
US,
as among
the freest and fairest that have taken place anywhere. This
committee also
wishes to register its strong opposition to any attempt,
whether direct or
indirect, by the US
in
pursuit of its imperial interests to interfere with the
right and freedom of
the people of Venezuela
to determine their own future. This committee supports the
initiative taken by
the government of Venezuela
and by other progressive governments in South and Central America to bring about a
greater continental unity that is also
independent of outside powers in order to better resolve
their common
problems.”
People's Democracy