Foreign Minister Yván Gil, on behalf of the government of President Nicolas Maduro, expressed his gratitude to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Sergei Lavrov, by rejecting in a recent press conference the colonialist and interventionist stance of the United States and their allies, against countries that do not bow to their designs.
“On behalf of President Nicolás Maduro, we express our sincere gratitude to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergei Lavrov, for his firm and forceful message against the colonialist attitude of the United States and its allies,” he wrote online. social Telegram the Venezuelan diplomat.
He added that Lavrov’s statement “highlights the unacceptable imposition of puppet presidents on nations that defend sovereign and anti-imperialist projects.”
This week the Russian Foreign Minister said at a press conference that “The West is blinded by its self-proclaimed greatness and impunity and by its self-assigned right to govern the destinies of the world,” in reference to the position of the United States and other Western countries on the recognition of the fugitive. of Justice Edmundo González Urrutia, as supposedly elected president of Venezuela.
Lavrov added that the only thing that shows this position of Western countries is that “democracy means only one thing: doing whatever you want.”
“That is its direct manifestation. At the same time, they consider themselves entitled to issue verdicts regarding electoral results,” added the representative of the Russian government, which has recognized Nicolás Maduro as the legitimate president of Venezuela.
On January 6, the Government of Venezuela condemned a statement from the White House in which it insisted on recognizing former opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the winner of last July’s presidential elections. Caracas, assured that the statement “represents a flagrant violation of international law” and is “a crude attempt to perpetuate imperialist interference in Latin America.”
