second visit to Caracas in less than a year<\/a><\/span>, which came after a stop at Cuba, was part of a three-country tour of Latin America. His next and final stop is Brazil, where he will participate in a meeting of the Group of 20 foreign ministers.<\/p>\nGil said ongoing discussions with Russia include increasing the number of flights between both countries which are operated by Venezuela\u2019s state-owned airline, as well as opening an insulin production plant equipped with Russian technology.<\/p>\n
\u201cVenezuela and Russia are two countries that are victims on the international stage of the illegal, irrational, illegitimate application of unilateral coercive measures,\u201d Gil said, referring to economic sanctions. However, he said, both countries \u201chave woven a close relationship, a functional, structural relationship that allows us today to show concrete results to our people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reaffirmed Tuesday his government\u2019s support for the administration of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, expressing commitment to strategic cooperation in numerous sectors, including technology, energy and culture, during an hourslong visit to the South American country. Lavrov\u2019s meetings with Vice President Delcy Rodriguez and Foreign Minister Yv\u00e1n Gil in the capital, Caracas,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":8486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/9e2956b\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/7791x5194+0+0\/resize\/1200x800!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F4c%2F24%2Fa2fcdf837df8c4fca2dab98ad9f4%2F25662d18c6b84e509e42b12854508e5d","fifu_image_alt":"Russian Foreign Minister Visits Caracas and Reaffirms Support of Venezuela\u2019s Maduro","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polity-governance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8487,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485\/revisions\/8487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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