Venezuela, RI to improve trade, investment relations

Jakarta / Wed, April 14 2010 / 02:42 pm

Venezuelan business leaders are exploring opportunities to improve cooperation with Indonesian partners in trade and investment. "We would like to improve trade and investment relations, including those in tourism, technology, chemicals and natural gas," Mirtha Quintero, manager for commercial promotion of Foreign Trade Bank of Venezuela (Bancoex), said at a seminar in Jakarta on Tuesday. The trade mission seminar was held by a visiting 20-member Venezuelan delegation representing two governmental agencies and 13 companies from various sectors such as aluminum, agribusiness, beverages, chemicals, food and telecommunication technology. "We can expand trade or investment relations because Venezuela has much potential, especially in natural resources," Diono Nurjadin of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry said. "The bilateral trade between the two countries is sti...