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    Post  George1 Wed May 28, 2014 9:15 pm

    Venezuelan FM to arrive to Moscow for talks on May 29

    Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua is expected to hold talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in May 29.

    "The negotiations between Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jaua - who will be in Russia as head of the delegation to hold the tenth meeting of the high-level intergovernmental Russian-Venezuelan committee - will take place in Moscow on May 29. This is the first visit of Jaua as the Venezuelan foreign minister," the Russian Foreign Ministry posted a statement on its website.

    "During the meeting the minister will exchange opinions on main issues of the bilateral agenda with the emphasis on advancing political dialogue and cooperation on the international arena," the document said. "Lavrov and Jaua will pay special attention to discussing regional problems and topics of enhancing the Russian-Venezuelan cooperation in multi-party organizations," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

    According to the statement, "following the talks the ministers will sign a plan of political consultations between the Russian and Venezuelan Foreign Ministries for 2015-2018."

    "Venezuela is one of Russia's leading partners in Latin America and on the international arena, cooperation with it is of a strategic character," the Russian Foreign Ministry said, Interfax reports.

    "Our countries support forming a more just and multi-polar world order based on the supremacy of international law with a central and coordinating role of the UN on issues concerning maintaining global peace and security. Acting this way, Russia and Venezuela show unity in their assessments of events in Ukraine, and support consistently resolving the situation in Syria and the nuclear program with solely political and diplomatic methods and using truly democratic principles in international relations, including in the human rights direction," the statement said.

    At the same time, "taking into account the significance of Venezuela for the entire Latin American region, we express solidarity with the friendly people of this state and our strong support for the course of [Venezuelan President] Nicolas Maduro's government aimed at not allowing the destabilization of the domestic political situation and organizing nationwide dialogue in the interests of overcoming disagreements existing in Venezuelan society in the constitutional field and without destructive interference from the outside," the document said.

    Venezuela is Russia's second trade and economic partner in Latin America after Brazil, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
    Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_28/Venezuelan-FM-to-arrive-to-Moscow-for-talks-on-May-29-3821/


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    Post  George1 Sat Aug 02, 2014 11:33 pm

    Russia's Rosneft signs bonus agreement for oil-field access in Venezuela

    Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft has signed a deal with Venezuelan counterpart PDVSA corresponding to a $440 million partial payment for access to a heavy-oil project in the South American country.

    "We've signed ... an agreement for the collection of Rosneft's first payment of $440 million for access to PetroVictoria's area on Sept. 1," Venezuela's vice president responsible for the economy, Rafael Ramirez, said at a press conference.

    All foreign companies interested in working in Venezuela's energy sector must first pay the government a so-called "bono de acceso" for those rights.

    PetroVictoria, a joint venture in which PDVSA has a 60 percent stake and Rosneft has the remaining 40 percent, owns the Carabobo-2 project in eastern Venezuela's Orinoco Belt.

    Ramirez, who is also Venezuela's oil minister and president of PDVSA, said the two companies also signed agreements to create joint ventures for developing other projects in the Orinoco Belt and for specialized oil services.

    Venezuela holds nearly 300 billion barrels of proved oil reserves, or around 25 percent of the global total, international certification processes have shown.

    The South American country produces approximately 3 million barrels of oil per day and exports roughly 2.5 million bpd, mainly to the United States and China, according to official figures. EFE
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    Post  George1 Mon Nov 17, 2014 7:37 pm

    Russia's Rosneft Signs New Long-Term Oil Contract With Venezuela

    Rosneft Head Igor Sechin noted that cooperation between Russia and Venezuela is growing in the oil shepre and thanked Venezuelan Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs for supporting the realization of new projects.

    MOSCOW, November 17 (Sputnik) – Russia’s oil giant Rosneft and Venezuela’s PDVSA have signed a second long-term contract on the purchase of 1.6 million tons of oil and 9 million tons of oil products from the Venezuelan company, Rosneft said Monday.

    “I would like to note the growing volume of cooperation in the oil sphere between Russia and Venezuela. Thanks to Venezuelan Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs Rafael Ramirez, as well as PDVSA’s new CEO Eulogio del Pino for supporting the realization of new projects,” Rosneft Head Igor Sechin said.

    The contract term is five years.
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    Post  George1 Tue Dec 16, 2014 10:40 pm

    Trust between Venezuela, Russia key element in development of bilateral relations

    CARACAS, December 16. /TASS/. Trust between Russia and Venezuela is a key element if development of bilateral ties, the foundations of which were laid by Presidents Hugo Chavez and Vladimir Putin, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said here on Monday after talks with the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Rafael Ramirez.

    “Trust between our countries is the backbone element in the bilateral relationship laid down by the leader of the Bolivarian revolution, Hugo Chavez, and President Vladimir Putin of Russia,” he said, adding that his talks with Ramirez had embraced a broad spectrum of issues and had been fruitful.

    Venezuela has become one of Russia’s main partners in Latin America. Their trade reached a record $ 2.4 billion last year.

    “Our countries take a consolidated position in the international arena,” he said, expressing Russia’s gratitude for the support it received from Venezuela on the Ukrainian problem.

    Ramirez said on his part a further strengthening of collaboration between Caracas and Moscow would become his country’s response to the sanctions introduced by the U.S.

    He singled out development of ties in defence and related technologies and said they would enable Venezuela to raise the combat readiness of its armed forces.

    The U.S. has taken on the role of a global gendarme and Venezuela’s response in this situation is a closer union with Russia, the countries making up the Latin American Bolivarian Alliance, the Union of South American Nations /UNASUR/, and China, Ramirez said.

    Venezuela deserves due respect and it will build up relations with all the countries sharing its views of the multipolar world, he said.

    Also Rogozin said, that strange inconsistencies have occurred in the construction of a factory that is supposed to do licensed assembly of Kalashnikov assault rifles in Venezuela.

    Cooperation in defence-related technologies was one of the items on the agenda of their negotiations as co-chairpersons of the Russian-Venezuelan high-level commission.

    As he answered a question by TASS, Rogozin said it was yet to be established why the current contractor had received the contract for building the factory.

    “The general contractor will be changed and the deadline for completing the construction works has been put off to the end of 2015,” he said.

    Russia and Venezuela will set up a mechanism of tough control over how their bilateral decisions are fulfilled, Rogozin said.

    “Our Venezuelan partners and I made an arrangement to set up a mechanism of tough control over how bilateral agreements are fulfilled,” he wrote in his microblog.

    The two countries signed an agreement on building a factory for assembling the Kalashnikov guns of series 100 in Venezuela in July 2006. The document said Venezuelan technology experts and specialists would be trained for a full licensed production cycle of cycle of AK-103 guns.

    The factory is expected to assemble about 25,000 Kalashnikov automatic assault rifles annually.
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    Post  Battalion0415 Mon Jan 12, 2015 10:42 am

    Russia will have more anti USA friends?
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    Post  Werewolf Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:20 am

    Battalion0415 wrote:Russia will have more anti USA friends?

    The question should be will USA be more anti-world and anti-human?
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    Post  Battalion0415 Mon Jan 12, 2015 12:09 pm

    And Cuba.

    No, USA fights war against terrorist 3 war against 3 different terrorist groups.

    Only against them in new time war.

    Big nation's is no possible to attack's.
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    Post  Werewolf Mon Jan 12, 2015 12:54 pm

    Battalion0415 wrote:And Cuba.

    No, USA fights war against terrorist 3 war against 3 different terrorist groups.

    Only against them in new time war.

    Big nation's is no possible to attack's.

    Iraq, Lybia, Syria, Ukraine, Afghanistan...US creates the terrorists and they do not fight them, they use them and pretend to be the solution for the self made terrorists, that is called Mafia.
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    Post  George1 Wed Jan 14, 2015 8:39 pm

    Putin to talk oil prices, bilateral ties with Venezuelan president Thursday — Kremlin

    MOSCOW, January 14. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin is due on Thursday to hold talks with his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro, who will arrive in Russia on a working visit, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

    “In fact, President Putin plans to hold such a meeting on Thursday,” Peskov said, confirming earlier reports from Venezuelan sources.

    The sides will focus on bilateral Russian-Venezuelan relations, and namely particular projects in energy, and banking and financial sector, Peskov said.

    “Of course, the topics will include the situation on the global oil markets, and also other topical issues,” he added.

    Last week, the Venezuelan leader visited several OPEC nations and also China to hold a number of high-level discussions to continue the effort to restore world oil prices, which have fallen to their lowest in almost six years.

    During the diplomatic tour, Maduro held talks with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Salman, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, as well as Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

    Venezuela is among the world’s ten largest oil exporters. According to a US Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2012 report, Venezuela’s oil exports reached 1.7 million barrels. Saudi Arabia took the top spot with exports estimated at 8.8 million barrels per day.

    After a meeting on November 27 in Vienna, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) decided to keep a daily oil production quota at the level of 30 million barrels, which sent oil prices further down.

    Headquartered in Vienna, OPEC includes 12 countries, namely Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Qatar, Libya, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Nigeria, Ecuador, and Angola. Russia, Mexico, Egypt and Oman are observers at the OPEC.

    Inside the oil cartel, Algeria, Venezuela and Iran have conflicting interests with and Saudi Arabia. Amid the US shale revolution, Saudi Arabia is unwilling to give up its market share and is not planning to cut oil production.

    On the way to China on January 5, the Venezuelan leader’s plane made a technical stop at Moscow’s Vnukovo-2 airport where Maduro briefly met with Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov.

    Venezuelan Minister for Communication and Information Jacqueline Faria wrote on her Twitter account that Maduro’s visit to Moscow signals “solidarity” with the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the face of destabilizing actions of the US.

    In late December, Maduro said Washington is conducting an oil war to destroy Russia and Venezuela.

    “A real oil war is underway,” he said. “Its goal is to destroy Russia, to drive Russia into a collapse as a global power …” The current slump in oil prices is also spearheaded at Venezuela, Maduro said.

    “It seeks to turn our country into a colony, to destroy our independence and our revolution with the aid of an economic collapse,” he stressed.
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    Post  George1 Fri Jan 16, 2015 10:13 pm

    Venezuela, Russia agree on cooperation to develop Orinoco Oil Belt

    CARACAS, January 16. /TASS/. Venezuela and Russia have reached an agreement to step up investment and participation of Russian companies in development of Orinoco Belt oil reserves and other projects, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday after a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

    The press service of the Venezuelan presidential administration cited the president as saying the step was part of a plan to protect the oil market and strengthen the strategic alliance with Russia in the energy sector.

    An agreement was also reached on investments in equipment to extract and refine oil.

    The two presidents discussed energy, trade, agricultural production, infrastructure development, housing, cultural cooperation and financing, the press service said.

    When meeting with Maduro on Thursday, Putin said Venezuela was a close friend and partner of Russia.

    Maduro assured that Venezuela would be always with Russia.

    Last week, the Venezuelan president visited OPEC member states and China and had talks with their leaders with the aim to continue efforts to restore world oil prices.

    On the way to China on January 5, the Venezuelan president’s plane landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport where he met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov.

    Russia and Venezuela are developing cooperation in various sectors, including military technical, energy, industrial cooperation and housing construction.

    Venezuela produces three 3 million barrels of oil a day and exports 2.5 million, mainly to the United States and China. It is the world’s fifth oil exporter. The country's oil reserves are estimated at almost 300 billion barrels. Most of the reserves are in the Orinoco Belt.
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    Post  George1 Wed May 27, 2015 8:55 am

    Moscow hopes for support of Russian business in Venezuela — Russian deputy PM

    Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez signed a final act of the meeting of the Russian-Venezuelan high-level commission

    MOSCOW, May 26. /TASS/. Moscow expects that Russian companies will enjoy the most favorable conditions for work in Venezuela, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said at the meeting of the bilateral intergovernmental commission on Tuesday.

    "Of course, we are interested that the government of Venezuela will support the initiatives of the Russian business and offer the most comfortable and favorable conditions for the Russian companies that will be eager to come to your country," Rogozin told Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez.

    Rogozin stressed the importance of cooperation as part of the bilateral high-level commission. He reminded that the format of working consultations launched in December has proved to be effective.

    "The problems that have not yet been solved are under our personal control. We expect that the agreements that have been reached and bilateral documents that will be signed today will be also fully implemented," he said.

    Rogozin and Rodriguez signed a final act of the meeting of the Russian-Venezuelan high-level commission.

    The sides also approved a program of cooperation and exchange in the culture sphere for 2015-2017 and an action plan as part of fulfilling a memorandum on mutual understanding in the sphere of metrology.
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    Post  George1 Tue Jun 09, 2015 7:22 am

    Russia extends period of state loan provided to Venezuela — Kremlin
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    Post  HUNTER VZLA Fri Sep 04, 2015 10:43 am

    Russia will supply the Army of Venezuela with technology during the next six months




    Venezuela to buy Russian military technology to engineering troops during the next six months, according to the most Acosta Prieto declared last Wednesday.

    "We have come to examine the technique used by the engineering troops of the Russian Federation and our army will buy in the next six months", - declared Prieto Acosta for the participation of engineering troops in the competition "Safe Road" which held in the region of Nizhny Novgorod.

    He declared the military, the Venezuelan army is carrying out modernization in their ranks and to do this we have chosen Russian technique, since this is "the best and most reliable in the world". "We hope that, after purchasing this technique engineering, Venezuela may present a team capable of competing in the International Military Games," noted the Venezuelan representative. This added that the Venezuelan team has attended competitions to gain experience and learn the Russian military.

    "Relations between Venezuela and Russia are now very solid and stable, and contacts in the military sphere is developing rapidly. We already bought a lot of Russian weapons, and we are pleased to participate in this competition, which further strengthens our cooperation ", underlined the largest Acosta Prieto.



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    Post  HUNTER VZLA Thu Sep 24, 2015 11:40 am

    President Maduro ordered use partnerships with Russia and China to increase fleet of Military Aviation



    http://eltiempo.com.ve/venezuela/medida/reforzaran-aviacion-con-alianzas-con-rusia-y-china-tras-siniestro/195285



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    Post  HUNTER VZLA Fri Sep 25, 2015 9:35 pm

    Russian Foreign Minister will visit Venezuela to meet with Maduro


    http://www.noticias24.com/venezuela/noticia/297155/canciller-ruso-visitara-venezuela-para-reunirse-con-maduro/
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    Post  Walther von Oldenburg Sun Jan 17, 2016 10:05 pm

    With the end of Chavism in Venezuela, how will future relations between Russia and Venezuela look like?
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    Post  George1 Thu Oct 13, 2016 3:10 pm

    Venezuela to sign agreement with Russia on wheat deliveries — president

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    Post  George1 Wed Dec 07, 2016 2:46 pm

    Maduro to oversee implementation of agreements on cooperation with Russia 'personally'

    Maduro received Rogozin at a military base near the city of Valencia where Simon Bolivar’s army began its liberation campaign in 1819

    CARACAS, December 7. /TASS/. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is planning to personally monitor the implementation of the agreements reached within the Russian-Venezuelan High-Level Commission, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told reporters following bilateral meeting with Venezuela’s leader.

    "President Maduro decided to personally oversee all the agreements, which have been reached during this meeting," he said. "He asked all ministers to brief him on the implementation of the agreements that have been reached on a weekly basis."

    Maduro received Rogozin at a military base near the city of Valencia where Simon Bolivar’s army began its liberation campaign in 1819. According to Rogozin, during the meeting the two sides raised the issues related to political cooperation.

    "Venezuela has traditionally supported Russia’s stance on Syria, Ukraine and, naturally, on Crimea. We support Venezuela’s stance, which is committed to independence and pursues its own policy," Rogozin noted.

    In accordance with diplomatic traditions, the parties exchanged gifts. Maduro presented Rogozin a sculpture of Bolivar’s army soldier made of clay. The Russian deputy prime minister presented the Venezuelan leader a replica of Yuri Gagarin’s navigation watch the world’s first cosmonaut wore during his historic spaceflight.

    Grain export

    Moscow and Caracas will sign a contract on supplying from 30,000 to 50,000 tonnes of grain from Russia to Venezuela, Dmitry Rogozin told reporters following meeting of the Russian-Venezuelan High-Level Commission.

    "A commercial contract consisting of two parts was initialed earlier today and will be signed in January," he said. "The issue at hand is supplying from 30,000 to 50,000 tonnes of wheat to Venezuela, which until now was purchased in Canada and the US."

    According to Rogozin, if Venezuela provides relevant guarantees, in the future Russia could become a leading wheat supplier to that country. The second aspect of cooperation concerns phytosanitary control of products imported from Russia, with Venezuela taking into account their high ecological compatibility.

    Rogozin stressed that until recently cooperation between the two countries was based primarily on two major projects in military-technical cooperation and oil. "This time the High-Level Commission began to discuss for the first time the issues related to the diversification of this cooperation, which now includes several new projects," he said, adding that agriculture where cooperation has huge prospects is among the top priorities.


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    Post  George1 Sun Oct 18, 2020 7:37 pm

    Plans for the acquisition of tankers for the export of oil from Venezuela

    According to the newspaper "Kommersant" in the material "Oil of increased flotation. The Russian government is looking for ways to export raw materials from Venezuela, ” the Russian government may support the export of oil from Venezuela, which is under US sanctions. For example, Russian insurers can provide vessels of the Russian-Venezuelan Transoceania with coverage of up to $ 300 million, and Promsvyazbank can provide a loan of $ 80 million for two more tankers to the existing Ayacucho, which in June changed its name to Maxim Gorky., and the flag - in Russian. These vessels will at least be able to export oil from the Russian-owned fields in Venezuela. The co-owner of Transoceania, already under the Sovfrakht sanctions, may become a single logistic operator of sea transportation between the Russian Federation and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

    Kommersant has learned that the fleet of the Russian-Venezuelan company Transoceania, which operates the former Venezuelan tanker Ayacucho (now Maksim Gorky ), which has passed under the Russian flag , may be replenished with two more tankers. According to the interlocutors of Kommersant, the government is discussing the possibility of instructing Promsvyazbank to issue a targeted loan of up to € 80 million for such a purchase. The ships themselves, the proceeds from bareboat charter contracts, as well as the oil transported can become collateral for the transaction, sources say ”. According to them, the issue is supervised by Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov. The deputy prime minister's office and Promsvyazbank did not provide comments.

    That the tanker Ayacuchodeadweight of 320.8 thousand tons (VLCC class) was re-registered in the Russian register since June and under the Russian flag, drew RBC's attention on September 18. The vessel was built in 2013 at the Chinese shipyard Bohai Shipbuilding and was owned by the Singaporean joint venture CV Shipping, owned by PDVSA and the Chinese state-owned company PetroChina.

    According to Reuters, after the imposition of US sanctions against the PDVSA, international insurers withdrew the coverage of ships, PetroChina initiated the bankruptcy of the joint venture, as a result of which Ayacucho remained with the Venezuelan side and went under its flag.

    At the end of May, PDVSA handed the vessel over to the Venezuelan National Institute of Water Management (INEA), and after another tightening of US sanctions, the tanker was registered in the Big Port of St. Petersburg. Now it is managed by Transoceania, a joint venture of INEA and Sovfrakhta, which has been under US sanctions on the Crimean package since 2016. "Maxim Gorky" was last recorded in the AIS system on October 2 and was near Reunion, en route with a cargo from Venezuela to Southeast Asia. Reuters reported that the tanker could get up for repairs at one of the shipyards in China.

    According to Kommersant's sources, an order from the President of the Russian Federation may be prepared to insure all Transoceania sea vessels in the Crimean First Insurance Company (they did not answer Kommersant), after which the fleet will be reinsured in the Russian National Reinsurance Company (there declined to comment). The insurance coverage will be up to $ 300 million, Kommersant sources say. As a single operator of sea transportation between the Russian Federation and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, Kommersant's interlocutors add, the state company will offer Sovfrakht (they declined to comment).

    A Kommersant source in the insurance market explains that, given the sanctions imposed on the Venezuelan government and Sovfrakht, it would be impossible to insure Maxim Gorky and the future Transoceania fleet in other countries - most likely, it already has or there will be a red mark in Lloyd's system. Insurance coverage of $ 300 million is the minimum limit for compliance with international conventions, it is not enough to meet the basic requirements of most of the world's major water areas, where the amount of liability for such vessels reaches $ 1 billion, says the source of Kommersant.

    Most likely, tankers will operate in narrow waters (that is, not in the busiest ports) and carry Russian cargo, he believes, calling the decision "political and absolutely correct in terms of protecting interests and minimizing risks."

    The Russian government owns oil producing assets in Venezuela, which were transferred to the state from Rosneft in March. The oil company last disclosed that in 2018 its production in Venezuela amounted to about 2.7 million tons of oil, but since then, the total production in the country under the influence of US sanctions has dropped almost fourfold, to 359 thousand barrels per day in the third quarter. 2020 year. It is not known how much production at the former assets of Rosneft dropped during this time.

    The main consumers of Venezuela's oil after the imposition of sanctions were China and India, but they also reduce purchases. In Latin America and the Caribbean, Cuba has historically been the main recipient of Venezuelan oil: until 2015, supplies were 100,000 barrels per day, but in 2019 they fell by half, according to Argus. Cuba has a refinery called Cienfuegos (owned by the local state-owned company CUPET), which can process more than 3 million tons of oil per year, but is currently underutilized. Cuba faces a chronic fuel shortage due to declining supplies from Venezuela. Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov is the co-chairman of intergovernmental commissions with both Venezuela and Cuba.

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    Post  Kiko Tue Nov 09, 2021 5:48 am

    Russia and Venezuela are about to carry out major projects in the area of oil and gas, says Lavrov, 08/11/2021.

    On Monday (Cool, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia and Venezuela are close to implementing plans in the area of oil and gas.

    "We have big plans that we discussed today, in all areas of bilateral relations," Lavrov said after negotiations with his Venezuelan counterpart, Félix Plasencia.

    "We will continue to implement all plans by the line of the high-level commission in the economic-commercial and investment areas. There are in fact great plans that are close to being realized, including collaboration in the area of the peaceful use of outer space, in the area of Transport, Logistics, in the area of oil and gas and tourism," the minister added.

    The Russian minister stressed that Moscow and Caracas have close contacts in all spheres. Lavrov reported that at the meeting the chancellors also discussed cooperation in the defense area, among other issues.

    Russia is ready to send its observers to the municipal and regional elections that will take place in Venezuela on November 21. Lavrov said that the European Union and the United Nations were also invited to send their experts to Venezuela.

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    Post  JohninMK Tue Nov 09, 2021 6:37 am

    "including collaboration in the area of the peaceful use of outer space, "

    Hey maybe a Russian space port much nearer the Equator Smile

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    Post  GarryB Tue Nov 09, 2021 5:08 pm

    Absolutely... plus GLONASS tracking stations to make GLONASS more accurate in the region...
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    Post  andalusia Fri May 13, 2022 2:58 pm

    This seems like a good suggestion in this article about Venezuela sending their F 16 to Russia for advanced aircraft.


    https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/should-venezuela-transfer-its-f-16s-to-russia-exchanging-u-s-jets-for-migs-would-benefit-both-caracas-and-its-moscow
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    Post  GarryB Fri May 13, 2022 6:35 pm

    What would Russia do with old model obsolete F-16s?

    I would say Venezuela should gift them to Iran, but why would Iran want them?

    Whoever you give them to they wont last long because they need parts and support and countries who have never operated them before would struggle to keep a useful number operational.

    You could take a fleet of 50 or 100 of them and then use them up and cannibalise the aircraft to keep one or two flying for a while but it would not be very useful.

    I would say for Venezuela... offering complete inspections of them to Russia would make sense but they are not new planes so they might take a look, but most likely it would be more value for Venezuela to strip them all down for materials and parts... if they have any spare parts or parts on aircraft not yet expired they could sell them to Turkey or Egypt or Pakistan jsut on the quiet for a much more reasonable price than what the US sells them for... they operated them long enough to know which parts need replacing and what costs the most.

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    Post  lancelot Fri May 13, 2022 10:16 pm

    andalusia wrote:This seems like a good suggestion in this article about Venezuela sending their F 16 to Russia for advanced aircraft.  
    https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/should-venezuela-transfer-its-f-16s-to-russia-exchanging-u-s-jets-for-migs-would-benefit-both-caracas-and-its-moscow
    Uncle Sam wouldn't allow that. Why not just sell them to Egypt, Indonesia, or some country like that?

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