TEHRAN, (PIC)-- The Hamas Movement on Wednesday received an official invitation to visit Caracas during a meeting in Tehran between visiting Venezuelan foreign minister Nicolas Maduro and a Hamas delegation.
Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk, the deputy political bureau chairman of Hamas, told PIC that the Hamas delegation led by its political bureau chairman Khaled Mishaal conferred with the Venezuelan foreign minister on overall Palestinian conditions in the light of the Israeli aggressions and the western siege.
He said that the delegates also reviewed the American policy in the Middle East and Latin America.
Maduro affirmed his country's backing to and solidarity with the Palestinian people in face of the Israeli aggressions and oppression as a result of American policies, Abu Marzouk noted.
He also quoted the Venezuelan chief diplomat as affirming the Latin American peoples' sympathy with the Palestinian people in face of the ceaseless Israeli aggressions and oppressive siege.
Maduro also expressed the support of the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and his people for the Palestinian people and the Makkah agreement. He stressed his country's rejection of the American imperialist policy in the Middle East, according to Abu Mazrouk.
He also quoted Maduro as expressing hope to form a front of Latin American peoples and their governments in support of the Palestinian people as a first step towards breaking the siege and extending financial assistance to the Palestinian people and its unity government.
Abu Marzouk said that Maduro addressed an official invitation to Hamas leadership to visit Caracas and asked the unity government to open direct links with Venezuela and to open a Palestinian embassy in Caracas.
Meanwhile, a source close to the Hamas Movement said that Caracas might well be one of the countries that Hamas leadership would visit within its current tour of a number of countries a bid to rally support for the Palestinian unity government. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>