CARACAS (Reuters) -Venezuela’s government said on Monday it will close its embassies in Norway and Australia and open new ones in Burkina Faso and Zimbabwe as past of a restructuring in its foreign service that seeks to shore up alliances in Africa.
The closures are part of the “strategic re-assignation of resources,” the government said in a statement, adding consular services to Venezuelans in those countries would be provided by diplomatic missions, with details to be shared in coming days.
(Reporting by Vivian Sequera and Deisy Buitrago in Caracas; Editing by Brendan O’Boyle)
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