The US will use any means essential to pressure international locations to chop ties with Moscow, the top of Russia’s Safety Council, Nikolay Patrushev, mentioned throughout a go to to Venezuela. He additionally warned that Washington is intent on preserving a unipolar world order.

Patrushev held safety consultations together with his Venezuelan counterpart Jose Adelino Ornelas Ferreira and different high-ranking officers in Caracas on Tuesday.

The Russian safety chief argued that “all sovereign states are at present experiencing a second of reality after they have to select both to defend the liberty to pick their path, their very own values and id, or to undergo the dictate of the so-called collective West, led by the US.” 

Of their makes an attempt to protect the unipolar world order, Washington and its allies resort to “political stress, navy blackmail, monetary enslavement, financial sanctions and, after all, deceitful propaganda,” he insisted.

Moscow’s worldwide companions have confronted “unprecedented stress from the US, which is making an attempt to pressure them to chop any ties with Russia, irrespective of how shut and useful they might be,” Patrushev acknowledged.

The safety official added that Russia is “grateful” to Venezuela for resisting these makes an attempt and backing Moscow. “We recognize the Bolivarian [Venezuelan] management’s public condemnation of the damaging insurance policies by the West and NATO, in addition to the aggression unleashed towards Russia,” Patrushev mentioned, referring to the battle in Ukraine.

Throughout the consultations, the prospect of enhancing interplay between the 2 nations’ justice ministries, safety, and legislation enforcement companies was mentioned, the Russian Safety Council mentioned. Particular consideration was paid to countering Western-backed ‘shade revolutions’, the assertion added.

Patrushev later met with the Latin American nation’s president, Nicolas Maduro, on the Miraflores Palace.

The Russian safety chief advised Maduro that relations between Moscow and Caracas had been a “strategic partnership” that was paramount for sustaining worldwide safety and stability.

The Venezuelan chief wrote on Twitter that cooperation at completely different ranges for the profit and improvement of each nations had been mentioned.

Within the run-up to the assembly with Patrushev, Maduro tweeted that Venezuela was taking “agency steps in the direction of constructing the brand new world of equals, of respect, solidarity and cooperation.”

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