Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro confirmed on Wednesday (2) that his country will maintain trade relations with Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, after several nations and blocs chose to disassociate themselves from the Eurasian nation.
“Now that the West has gone into hysteria, despair and madness with Russia, we are going to maintain our trade relations with Russia and we are ready to sell them everything we can, modestly, and everything Russia needs to buy, everything.” Maduro said during a government act broadcast by state broadcaster VTV.
“The economic war is the main war that imperialism is waging against Russia to destroy it. The objective of the US empire and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was to encircle it militarily and Russia acted,” he added.
The Venezuelan president also indicated that yesterday he spoke by telephone with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to whom he assured that the Caribbean country “modestly resisted” the “same measures” announced by the United States and Europe, but that Venezuela is currently ” standing, victorious, recovering, producing”.
Maduro called the measures taken against Russia by several countries a “crime against the Russian people”, although he did not mention the ongoing wartime occupation attempt.
“Look what they’re doing to Russia, it’s a crime what they’re doing to the Russian people, an economic war, they’ve taken them out of the Swift (interbank interbank communication) system, they’ve closed their airspace, they’ve closed trade ties, they closed down and banned the use of the dollar, what they are doing to Russia is crazy,” he declared.
Finally, the Venezuelan president opined that “the problems of the world must be resolved diplomatically and politically” to “preserve world peace”.
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