General Nikolái Pátrush, secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, was received by the constitutional president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro in office one, of the Government Palace, as well as an important delegation that accompanies him as part of his international tour.
A meeting that will serve to review the map of cooperation in progress with the Russian Federation, especially in matters of security and that will also allow strengthening the ties of friendship and solidarity.
This meeting will allow us to review the challenges of current geopolitics, the progress in relations between Venezuela and Russia and the role of both nations in rejecting unilateral coercive measures and any form of external interference, as well as regional security in Latin America and the Caribbean, military cooperation and civil defense.
Russia and Venezuela are also betting on the construction of a multicentric world, without empires or threats. On December 15, authorities of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Russian Federation signed eleven agreements in strategic sectors to continue consolidating these bilateral alliances at the highest level, President Nicolás Maduro specified that during a meeting of the high-level intergovernmental commission level held in the year 2022 demonstrated that relations between Russia and Venezuela are increasingly acquiring a higher strategic level, greater quality and depth in their results, as well as greater historical strength, in this context the Venezuelan head of state ratified the path of military cooperation to defend peace, sovereignty and territorial integrity.
We are going to increase all preparation, training, and cooperation plans with a world military power like Russia.
Russia is also a developing country, an emerging country in the international arena, a great Power of peace.
Venezuela is also a strategic partner in America, these relations between the two countries have been based on dialogue and trust, as well as twenty areas of bilateral exchange such as health, industry, military technical cooperation, trade, agriculture, transportation, science and technology.
