Venezuelan foreign minister to visit Moscow - Lavrov
MOSCOW. March 21 (Interfax) - Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez will visit Russia to hold talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and take part in an intergovernmental commission meeting.
"We have very close relations with Venezuela, but President Nicolas Maduro was in Moscow very recently, and Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez will pay an official visit simultaneously with a session of the intergovernmental commission next month. We will have full-scale negotiations," Lavrov said in an interview shown in a Saturday analytical program hosted by Sergei Brilyov on Russian television.
Lavrov also commented on Washington's declaration of Venezuela as "a threat to the U.S.' national security."
"In my view, this statement's absurdity is obvious to everyone. We would really like the U.S. to stop looking for enemies in its geographical surrounding and listen to the Latin America's and the Caribbean Basin's unanimous voice. And the countries of this region unanimously object to putting such pressure on Venezuela, not to mention interfering in its internal affairs," he said.
"Russia fully supports this call and the activities of the Union of South American Nations, which has dispatched a mediating mission to help the Venezuelan leadership in its efforts toward stabilizing the situation in the country," he said.
