they blasted us on the fourth floor with a direct hit on the foundation, who was here, everyone went down to the basements. in that direction of the house, all the windows of each apartment were knocked out, there is nothing living, not glass, no, the city is of strategic importance. it 's on a hill from here. fighters vsu, fired at the surrounding settlements in their guns, installed right in the middle of residential areas. right here, across the churchyard, there, well, it’s like a wasteland and she was standing there in a shelter. they got infected there and this is how only bang in my head bach house. cherishes the basement trembles behind the civilians, probably hiding. now there is a live broadcast from the press conference of the russian foreign ministers of venezuela following the talks in moscow , mr. minister worked for 5 years as the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of venezuela to the russian

federation and made a very significant contribution to the promotion of our strategic partnership in the implementation of the tasks that our presidents agree on and in the sphere of trade, the economy, investments, military-technical cooperation in the cultural and humanitarian field and in general in relations between venezuela, uh, and russia and our peoples. we will appreciate that e carlos not only speaks excellent russian, but also knows very deeply the history, culture and culture of our country. and this, of course, helps to develop relations, and we expect them. further advancement in all directions, our cooperation is based on the principles of equality, mutual respect and is not subject to any

fluctuations in the international situation, no matter how the newcomers try to shake and shake this year. we marked the 165th anniversary of the establishment of state relations and the 77th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations. i also note that today's meeting took place on the eve. i would like to congratulate our guests and all venezuelans on the upcoming holiday. as agreed by our presidents, we confirmed our focus on deepening political dialogue, trade, economic and cultural humanitarian exchanges we agreed on a way to promote mutually beneficial projects in a number of areas, including energy, pharmaceuticals, industry, transport, military-technical cooperation, we expect

the opening of a russian center of science and culture in caracas soon. and, of course, we will increase cooperation in high-tech areas in the interests of the development of our countries in this context as well. i would like to note that we have completed both russia and venezuela e, domestic procedures necessary for the entry into force of the intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in space, the document creates a legal framework for mutually beneficial projects, including the deployment of glonass ground stations in venezuela. we spoke in detail about the expansion of cooperation, along the line of foreign ministries, our joint efforts are the key direction within the framework of the group of friends created at the initiative of the venezuelan government in defense of the un charter outlined plans for the work of the group in the current year and look forward to expanding the number of its members. moreover, more and more countries understand what exactly lies behind

promoted by the americans and their satellites, the so -called rules-based order, which is, by and large. e revives. uh, colonial habits from the 19th century. we are interested in the rules being the same for everyone, and such rules are the charter, it protects the principles of which, created at the initiative of venezuela with our active support, the relevant international group. to strengthen our coordination, we will prepare a new plan for expert consultations between the ministries of foreign affairs, consultations will cover all without exception. uh, key issues on the international agenda. we agreed to promote wons on other multilateral platforms with objective information about the illegality and criminality of unilateral coercive measures. washington, such work has already been established, and there are special

rapporteurs on this topic who agreed that the us actions to block assets of sovereign states in foreign accounts. this is not just naked robbery of objectionable regimes in the spirit of the wild. the west is a gross violation of the socio-economic rights of citizens. we know, how seriously, but they want to continue, preferably, the americans and their allies to undermine the foundations of the venezuelan economy, it is already clear that these plans are. they won't come true. the venezuelan economy demonstrates the ability to withstand this kind of pressure, of course, we will help this in every possible way, we will coordinate our positions on the protection of universal human rights on issues and control over weapons of mass destruction ensuring energy food security biological security countering terrorism and

drug trafficking and other important issues on the international agenda for our part. i am grateful to the minister, our friend, for the information about the development of the internal political situation in venezuela, including the work of the government of president maduro on the socio-economic development of the country, as i said, under unacceptable conditions, sanctions blockades and on promoting key sectors of the venezuelan economy during the period. we reaffirmed our readiness to continue to make a constructive contribution. the impact of the peaceful resolution of inter-venezuelan disagreements, while respecting, of course, the sovereignty of venezuela while respecting its constitution in the event that the government and the opposition unitary platform decide to return to the negotiating table in mexico city, russia is ready to continue to participate in the international support of this dialogue. as an illustration of our approaches to resolving internal political contradictions not

only in venezuela but also in any other country. let me remind you the phrase of the great venezuelan simon bolivar. it says only the people is the master of their own destiny, the people's majority. here true sovereign. we call on the international community to respect the decision of the venezuelan people regarding both the choice of the paths of their socio-economic development and the issues of state structure. in general, regular checking of clocks between us is very useful, and i am convinced that the current visit to the upcoming meeting of mr. minister with members of the russian government who are engaged in economic cooperation will be useful and will make a significant contribution to the promotion of our strategic partnership. thanks thank you very much mr. uh, minister of foreign

affairs for your words. i am very happy to be back. here in moscow, it is already in a new status and in order to contribute to the further development of cooperation, which has existed for more than 20 years, a very serious cooperation that has brought our countries to the level of strategic partners. e partners who trust each other help each other support each other and coordinate their efforts on international platforms. i would like to greet the government of the russian federation putin on behalf of our president nicolás madura. let's sergey viktorovich lavrova today we discussed a number of

topics, and many of them have already been mentioned. i will not repeat this, but we discussed a variety of areas of cooperation that we have been working on for quite a long time, as well as new areas in order to diversify as much as possible the extensive cooperation that already exists between our countries. i think that this will help the further development of such areas as transport. for us. this is a very important area. i am i spoke in particular about railway transport , air traffic, civil air traffic, where we are actively establishing cooperation and, last year, there is air traffic between our countries. yes, using convasa aircraft, and we are

currently flying once every 2 weeks and are working on moving these flights to a weekly basis, also, uh. i would like to note that we have discussed a number of issues regarding a special military operation on our part by our government. we expressed our support from our president nicolás madura and we reject the sanctions that were imposed against the russian federation against the people of the russian federation and clearly see that the expectation of those who imposed these sanctions did not materialize the russian economy, despite all this damage. and they were going to inflict standing on their feet, yes, with

certain difficulties with certain problems, but the damage that was intended, which was planned, turned out to be minimized and in the near future, according to experts' forecasts. uh, he will almost come to naught, and we see ukraine pumping up military equipment to prolong the conflict and cotton grass. this seems to confirm the words of president vladimir vladimirovich putin that russia today is protecting its security , the security of its territory and the russian people. a we hope that, uh, the goals of the operation will be achieved in the near future, although our opponents are trying to do everything to the maximum. to prolong this conflict the russian federation, for

its part, is ready for dialogue, ready for negotiations. we see this and support it and hope that agreements will be reached that will take into account the interests of both russia and ukraine, so we discussed in detail what is happening. ah, the constitutional president of venezuela, nicolás maduro moroz, has repeatedly stated that we must enter into a dialogue with the opposition, we must resume it in order to move in the direction that we have been working on for quite a long time. we must ensure the democratic process. at work, we

were able to significantly reduce the threat to safety in our country, through dialogue with the opposition, we were able to enlist the support of an investor in our country , such investors as, in particular, the russian federation, which participates in a number of strategic projects in our country. we are very grateful ah, dear minister of foreign affairs, for the time given to us for the first uh for the first meeting, and in this status and i think that we will continue to expand our agenda, agreed with you and with the ministry of foreign affairs of the russian federation and we will certainly fulfill all the items on this agenda. thank you very much, please hello, may i have the first question to mr. lavrov, is russia planning to expand even more cooperation with

the countries of latin america, in particular with venezuela, given that it cannot rely on western partners, as the events of recent months have shown, italy of the argument on all conser and a question for you, mr. minister. how do you assess the effect of the united states sanctions against russia against venezuela at the present time in the united states there is a crisis e social fuel and we can expect the lifting of sanctions against venezuela joseph biden can make such a decision. but, what do you think about this? thank you and you are the product. and, well, what can we say about the extremely negative assessment of the policy that has been carried out for many years, the united states several administrations have a policy against various countries against various governments enough uh to recall the sanctions that were

imposed against our cuban brothers the republic of cuba is a country , which was under sanctions for for many years under sanctions that made it impossible for cuba to receive investments from other countries. uh, it's an economic blockade that has caused a whole series of severe crises. if we talk about our country, uh, there are wrong policies pursued by the obama administration and uh subsequent presidents. we, too, have been victims of illegal unilateral sanctions and coercive measures. we call these sanctions. with long-term measures, we say that these are not sanctions, because sanctions are against those who, uh, have

some kind of authority to make some decisions, but here we believe that the administration of the united states ah makes these decisions independently and we see massive large-scale application of sanctions against the russian federation in a variety of sanctions, the task of which is to, uh, stop economic development block the country isolate. but as i said, the concessions of the purpose of these sanctions were not achieved. this is a very serious miscalculation. i would say not an excusable miscalculation and the result of this miscalculation, but is the problem faced by the economy of the united states which faced the economy. european union a-a, who today do not know how to solve the difficulties that have arisen. how to return to normal life and i

think that this will certainly hit the people of these countries and may lead to certain changes in the group. i act in particular on the territory of the european union and we definitely condemn the use of these illegal sanctions against any country for the imposition of sanctions there it is an organization that should deal with any issues at a level where decisions are taken by a majority of the members, uh, and only it can decide on such pressure, but not uh, this cannot be done, as it is being done today by the united states by the european union japan and other countries regarding the russian federation thank you regarding the question. information to me about plans for the development of cooperation with latin america in the conditions of the

line that our western colleagues are demonstrating. and we have long drawn conclusions on this topic for ourselves. uh, the west cut off, in fact, practically all ties with our country, and mercifully, allowing uh, to leave some economic relations, first of all, in which it is interested. we will not artificially harm our own interests. but of course, we made a long time ago and concluded that the west is not capable of a reliable treaty, and we will develop relations both economic and political, military-technical and cultural with any country that ready to do it on an equal and mutually beneficial basis. the west is not ready for this and of course, the vast majority, if not strangely latin america and the caribbean are interested in developing a connection with us and we will reciprocate. dear

minister of foreign affairs of venezuela, does your country expect significant russian investments in the oil industry, mr. lavrov what measures does russia intend to take in response to the violation of the rights of journalists of the russian federation outside the country thank you regarding cooperation in the field of energy, then this is cooperation that has never stopped since the rapprochement of our countries. when in 2001 i met with president vladimir vladimirovich putin, one of the first topics that were discussed, in which cooperation began. it was cooperation in the field of energy, in the field of oil and the conditions in which we found ourselves

because of the action. uh, a number of the united states administration conditions that hindered the development of oil, the extractive industry of our country and the main companies in this industry companies dvsa a-a sanctions that have limited investment financing lending on the purchase of equipment spare parts. and all. this is being kept all these sanctions are still in place so we are uh working on specific projects with companies in the russian federation and we are uh continuing to deepen that work and hopefully we can uh agree on ways to get around the existing hurdles . uh solve the problems related to finance mechanisms in order to achieve specific agreements. then we see that

russia is currently achieving this goal, using unique means of payment in particular. this is the scheme that is used in working with china in working with india, uh. we see that despite the blockade a and we are happy about it, a more and more countries are included in the interaction. er, with russia, er, they are not afraid of the consequences they threaten, and we see that there are certain solutions that allow the established second culture to interact. ah, so ah, the oil industry e company pds and we we hope to pass to the same decisions and agreements with the financial decision of the transport industry and so on. thank you for the activities of journalists