Mozambique: Joaquim Chissano awarded Venezuela’s Order of Francisco de Miranda

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Mozambique: Joaquim Chissano awarded Venezuela’s Order of Francisco de Miranda

6:32 CAT | 03 Mar 2021

Photo: Noticias

The Government of Venezuela has awarded former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano the Order of Francisco de Miranda’ in recognition of the former head of state’s “contribution to all forms of struggle, independence and development”.

Venezuela’s ambassador to Maputo, Carlos Juarez, quoted this Wednesday by Mozambican daily ‘Notícias’, said that President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela had decided to distinguish Joaquim Chissano for his role in the “struggle for freedom, independence and sovereignty” of Mozambique and other nations.

The award ceremony, restricted according to Covid-19 limitations, took place on Tuesday at the Venezuelan embassy in Maputo.

Speaking on the occasion, the former Mozambican president considered the recognition proof of the “strong relations of friendship, brotherhood and solidarity that exist between the Venezuelan and Mozambican peoples”.

Joaquim Chissano pointed out that the ties between the two peoples were extant “since the days of the struggle of the two nations against slavery, oppression and colonial exploitation”.

In addition to Joaquim Chissano, President Nicolas Maduro has conferred the Order of Francisco de Miranda on four other African leaders: Sam Nujoma (Namibia), Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah (Namibia), Oppah Muchinguri (Zimbabwe); and Luzia Ingles Van-Dúnem (Angola).

Joaquim Chissano was president of Mozambique from 1986 to 2005.

Watch below, the address by Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro.

#EnVivo 📹 | Videoconferencia “Sueños de Libertad”. Homenaje de Venezuela a los Líderes de las Independencias de la Madre África. https://t.co/gX2L4YVCt0

— Nicolás Maduro (@NicolasMaduro) March 3, 2021

#EnVivo🔴|Pdte. @NicolasMaduro: Compartimos con la Madre África la lucha por la independencia para alcanzar la suprema felicidad de nuestros pueblos dueños de su propio destino, rompiendo las cadenas del colonialismo y del vergonzoso régimen del apartheid#SoberaníaEsPoderPopular pic.twitter.com/jgnPGNa6Uw

— MIPPCI (@Mippcivzla) March 3, 2021

The Order of Francisco de Miranda (Orden Francisco de Miranda) is conferred by the Republic of Venezuela in memory of Francisco de Miranda (1754–1816). a military leader and revolutionary regarded as a forerunner of Simón Bolívar.

Source: Lusa / Noticias