“The cooperation between our countries are connected with the name of President Hugo Chavez"

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Russian President Vladimir Putin during his video call with his Venezuelan counterpart President Nicolas Maduro, as part of the 80th anniversary of relations between the two countries. teleSUR

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00:00Nicolas, good afternoon.

00:06Good afternoon.

00:08Can you hear me?

00:11Esteemed President Maduro, dear friend, I am glad to have this chance to talk to you

00:21directly by video link.

00:23Our conversation is dedicated to the milestone event, the 80th anniversary of establishing

00:30diplomatic relations between our countries, and I would like to congratulate you from

00:35the bottom of my heart, to congratulate you and all our Venezuelan friends with this anniversary.

00:41We have exchanged messages, and both sides emphasized our satisfaction with the current

00:48level of the Russian-Venezuelan relations, and we expressed our interest in continuing

00:55developing these relations in the spirit of friendship and absolute mutual understanding.

01:01Russian-Venezuelan ties have a long history, and it has a lot of impressive chapters.

01:10Back in the 18th century, the national hero of Venezuela visited Russia, Francisco de

01:14Miranda, and Empress Catherine the Great even bestowed him with the title of Colonel of

01:23the Russian Army, and she even gave him Russian citizenship, and in the mid-19th century,

01:31the Russian Empire acknowledged and recognized the independence of Venezuela, which became

01:39an official start for the interstate contacts.

01:43But in March 1945, when the diplomatic war was established, it created conditions for

01:50regular political dialogue to be maintained, to expand trade and humanitarian ties, and

01:58this phase of the Russian-Venezuelan cooperation owes a lot to President Hugo Chávez.

02:08I remember with warmth all our conversations.

02:12It is due to his personal contribution, to his ideas, to the steps that he took, we managed

02:19to make a breakthrough in strengthening cooperation between our states.

02:24Currently, our relations have reached the level of strategic partnership, and today

02:30the cause of Comandante is contained by you, President Maduro, and you are standing for

02:36the sovereignty of your country and its course towards the close cooperation with Russia

02:44that is based on friendship, mutual trust and consideration for the interests of each

02:50other.

02:53On our part, we are doing everything that we can to give even a bigger impetus to work

03:01even more closely in trade and culture, in technical matters, in humanitarian areas.

03:10And with satisfaction, I would like to note that we have agreed on the agreement on strategic

03:16partnership and cooperation that is going to lay a good, strong foundation for further

03:22expansion of multidimensional ties between our countries in the long term.

03:29We can sign it during your visit to Russia, at your convenience, and I would be happy

03:35to see you in Moscow at the celebrations dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the great victory

03:43on May 9th, of the great victory in the Great Patriotic War.

03:47And we remember that during the difficult years of fighting against Nazism, Venezuela

03:53joined the anti-hyperionic coalition, and Venezuelan fuel played an important role.

04:03This fuel was supplied by the Lend-Lease system to our country.

04:07It helped our aviation and other military vehicles to function, to operate.

04:12And now we stand together against any manifestations of neo-Nazism and of neo-colonialism.

04:19And we appreciated that Venezuela supports Russian initiatives at the multilateral platforms.

04:26Russia and Venezuela adhere to similar positions on many matters of the global agenda,

04:34many items of the global agenda.

04:37We strive together to establish a more just world order.

04:41We promote the principles of the sovereign equality of the states,

04:45of mutually beneficial cooperation without any interference from the outside into the domestic

04:50affairs. The further strengthening of the Russian-Venezuelan strategic partnership across

04:56the board in all the sectors is in the interest of the harmonious development of our both states.

05:04My dear friend, my dear colleague, I would like to congratulate you once again.

05:08I would like to congratulate you and the Venezuelan people

05:12on the anniversary of the diplomatic relations between our countries. Thank you.

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