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India and Venezuela sought to boost their ties in the energy sector on Thursday, with New Delhi saying that Caracas sees it as a preferred partner in the sector at a time when global oil supplies have been disrupted by the Middle East crisis.
Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez is visiting India with a large team of ministers and held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday.
Discussions between the two sides focused on cooperation in both upstream and downstream energy projects, Rudrendra Tandon, Secretary (East) in the Indian foreign ministry, told a media briefing after the talks.
“We are working with a government that is friendly, that wants a partnership with India,” Tandon said. “We want to reciprocate that. Venezuela has traditionally been a close friend. We have collaborated very closely at the international level, so we are just going back to normal.”
