The Russian president, Vladimir Putin received today (10/23/2024) the Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Madurowhich is carrying out its first trip abroad since the July political crisis in the Caribbean nation.
“Venezuela is one of Russia’s old and reliable partners in Latin America and in the world in general,” Putin said during the meeting held in the Russian city of Kazan and broadcast live on Russian public television.
The Russian president stressed that “strategic partnership relations between our countries continue to strengthen.”
“Bilateral trade volumes are growing, we have multiple projects in the branches of energy, the pharmaceutical industry, transportation, the conquest of space, new technologies,” he said.
For his part, Maduro, who arrived last night in Kazan on a surprise trip, assured that Venezuela “has managed to recover its economy with its own efforts, with very positive indicators of economic growth, defeat of inflation, and investment.”
“We are prepared to continue receiving Russian investment”, to continue strengthening our trade, to continue strengthening the alliance between business sectors in all fields,” he stated.
Venezuela “practices the principles of the BRICS”
“We have passed the desert, as you know, I think we have passed several deserts (…) and we are now standing, whole and victorious, the people of Venezuela are victorious,” he said, in reference to the deep economic and political crises that has crossed the Caribbean nation in the last decade.
The president assured that “Venezuela is on the path of the BRICS, because it is on the path to balance the world, to build a multipolar, multicentric world”.
Venezuela “practices the principles of the BRICS out of conviction, the global South can only exist with the right to have the future, to have equality, to have freedom, to have prosperity.”
“This 21st century is the century of great change, of great transformation, the century of the birth of a new geopolitics, where the new emerging superpowers like China, like Russia, like India, can practice relationships of respect and cooperation with the peoples. from the global South and East,” he noted.
The Venezuelan president described the BRICS summit as “historic” and noted that “it is a great message of hope for the people of the world.”
Maduro, who had not traveled abroad since last July, met this Wednesday in Kazan with the leaders of Belarus, Turkey, Palestine and Ethiopia.
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