{"links":{"self":"https://petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/247072.json"},"data":{"type":"petition","id":247072,"attributes":{"action":"Establish Welsh Government partnership links with Cuba and Venezuela","background":"We call on the Welsh Government to:\r\n\r\nDevelop formal cultural, educational, medical and community partnership links with Cuba and Venezuela, following the model of Wales’s existing Dolen Cymru partnerships with Lesotho and Uganda — including opportunities for teacher and health worker exchange, cultural collaboration, and community-to-community links.","additional_details":"Wales has a 40-year tradition of formal, Government-funded international partnership links, delivered through Dolen Cymru & Wales and Africa programme. The Wales–Lesotho link, launched 1985, has placed over 50 Welsh teachers in Lesotho, supported NHS partnership exchanges & delivered cultural and educational collaboration between the two nations. A similar partnership exists with Uganda.\r\n\r\nThese links operate within Welsh Government devolved competence: while international relations generally is reserved to UK Parliament, Welsh Government retains the power to conclude non-binding partnership agreements with other governments in devolved areas; education, health and culture, and to hold meetings with counterparts from other nations.\r\n\r\nThis petition asks Welsh Government to extend this well-established, non-political partnership model  to Cuba and Venezuela; building people-to-people links in devolved areas; teacher exchange, health cooperation & cultural collaboration, as it already does with Lesotho.","state":"open","signature_count":9,"threshold_for_referral":250,"threshold_for_debate":10000,"created_at":"2026-08-10T15:14:14.455Z","updated_at":"2026-08-14T13:12:10.000Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2026-08-14T08:51:35.871Z","closed_at":"2027-02-14T23:59:59.999Z","completed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2026-08-10T15:21:00.000Z","referral_threshold_reached_at":null,"referred_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"archived_at":null,"submitted_on_paper":false,"submitted_on":null,"creator_name":"Maria Donnellan","rejection":null,"debate":null,"topics":[],"signatures_by_country":[{"name":"Wales","code":"GB-WLS","signature_count":9}],"signatures_by_constituency":[{"id":"W09000049","name":"Bangor Conwy Môn","signature_count":3},{"id":"W09000055","name":"Ceredigion Penfro","signature_count":2},{"id":"W09000058","name":"Gwynedd Maldwyn","signature_count":3},{"id":"W09000063","name":"Sir Gaerfyrddin","signature_count":1}],"signatures_by_region":[]}}}