Russia and Venezuela Ink Accords
Venezuela's Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel and Russian counterpart Alexander Zhukov are due to sign 13 bilateral cooperation accords during the 3rd Top-Level Inter-Government Commission.

The bilateral collaboration includes energy, investments, aviation, copyright, health, education, science, culture, technology and defense.

This 3rd bi-national meeting started in Moscow on October 12 with a five-sub-commission plenary session in charge of analyzing economic-trade cooperation, as well as other areas of common interest.

Prior to signing those agreements, Rangel and Zhukov will ink the Joint Commission's Final Act today, give a joint news conference for Russian and foreign journalists, Prensa Latina reported.

The Venezuelan delegation is also made up of Sohail Hernandez, executive secretary of the commission and general director of Economy and Cooperation at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, and Richard Vivas, deputy minister from that ministry for Europe.

The joint group was created in May 2001 with the aim of analyzing possibilities of profitable mutual cooperation, and its first meeting took place in this capital in October 2004.