Venezuela, through a statement this Thursday, thanked the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, for the invitation to the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, to participate in the BRICS+ Summit in Kazan.
Furthermore, they highlight that “this historic summit for a new world of peace, justice and shared development has been a resounding success”, therefore, “we congratulate President Putin and his government for their extraordinary contributions, in the words of El Libertador Simón Bolívar , to universal balance.”
Below is the full text:
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela thanks the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, his government and the heroic Russian people, for the invitation extended to President Nicolás Maduro Moros to participate in the BRICS+ Summit in Kazan.
Venezuela, possessor not only of the largest energy reserve in the world, but also a banner of the values, principles and vision of building a fair, multicentric and pluripolar world, has had the backing and support of the countries participating in this summit to the formalization of their entry into this integration mechanism.
But through an action that contradicts the nature and postulate of the BRICS, the representation of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry (ltamaraty), led by ambassador Eduardo Paes Saboia, decided to maintain the veto that Bolsonaro applied to Venezuela for years, reproducing hatred, the exclusion and intolerance promoted from Western power centers to prevent, for now, the entry of Bolívar’s Homeland into this organization, in an action that constitutes an aggression against Venezuela and a hostile gesture that adds to the criminal policy of sanctions that have been imposed against a brave and revolutionary people, like the Venezuelan people.
Venezuela graces the global South and East with its firmness in the defense of self-determination and sovereign equality of States. No ruse or maneuver conceived against Venezuela will stop the course of history. A new world is born! Venezuela is part of this free world without hegemonism.
The Venezuelan people feel indignation and shame at this inexplicable and immoral aggression by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry (ltamaraty), maintaining the worst of Jair Bolsonaro’s policies against the Bolivarian Revolution founded by Commander Hugo Chávez.
This historic summit for a new world of peace, justice and shared development has been a resounding success. We congratulate President Putin and his government for their extraordinary contributions, in the words of El Libertador Simón Bolívar, to universal balance.
Caracas, October 24, 2024.
