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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with Foreign Minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Yvan Gil (Caracas, February 20, 2024)

💬 Three days ago, we celebrated the 167th Anniversary of our bilateral relations. This is an impressive milestone. I congratulate all of us on this significant occasion.

Throughout this time, our relations have evolved into a stable strategic partnership and a true friendship. We support each other on the international stage in our efforts to promote justice and democracy in global affairs.

We cooperate within the Group of Friends in Defence of the UN Charter, established at the initiative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Our work has had a galvanising effect on all the countries seeking to assert their identity and avoid being adversely affected by Western policies that still rely on neo-colonial practices.

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following talks with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cuba Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla (Havana, February 19, 2024)

Key talking points:

🇷🇺🇨🇺 Cuba is our traditional partner and an important ally in Latin America and the Caribbean. We are happy with the constructive and intensive political dialogue between Russia and Cuba at all levels.

• Today, we reaffirmed our mutual interest in continuing to build up our trade, economic and investment cooperation. Our recent decisions have contributed to the development of a full-scale legal framework for interaction in the material sphere.

• We have noted our Cuban friends’ consistent and growing interest in cooperation with #BRICS. Russia, which holds the group’s rotating chairmanship this year, will encourage this intention.

• We expressed a high opinion of our bilateral interaction or more precisely the coordination of our actions on the international stage. We share a common view on respect for the UN Charter in its entirety and in the interconnection of its principles. We also agree on the importance of creating a fairer and more democratic world order based on the principle of the sovereign equality of states.

• We reaffirmed our resolve to continue to coordinate our actions in the Group of Friends in Defence of the UN Charter, above all when it comes to fighting dictate, neocolonial practices and unilateral sanctions.

• We also confirmed our strong condemnation of the illegal US trade, economic and financial blockade of Cuba.

❗️ We are firmly committed to the immediate termination of this shameful practice and demand that Cuba be removed from the American list of states that sponsor terrorism.

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🎙 Comment for the media by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov following the talks with Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of Cuba and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (Havana, February 19, 2024)

💬 Sergey Lavrov: We covered the full spectrum of our relations and reviewed the results of extensive conversations with my colleague, Foreign Minister of Cuba Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.

One important matter on the bilateral agenda is improving the legal and regulatory framework and practical projects concerning trade, the economy and investment links. <...>

✈️ There are excellent prospects in tourism. President Miguel Díaz-Canel noted a steady rise in Russian tourists visiting your beautiful resorts.<...>

🎓 Russia and Cuba maintain intensive humanitarian cooperation, especially in education. Cuban students enjoy studying in Russia. We offer a very steady and attractive reimbursement programme for our Cuban friends studying in Russian universities.

Our traditional cultural exchanges are quite intensive. The Russian band Turetsky Choir and its women's ensemble, Soprano, will be touring Cuba at the beginning of summer.

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🇺🇳 Russia and Cuba maintain intensive cooperation and coordinate their actions on all the key issues on the international agenda. Russia, our Cuban friends and other like-minded partners participate in the Group of Friends in Defence of the UN Charter.

❌ It is absolutely outrageous that the US continues with its trade, economic and financial blockade of Cuba, an act condemned by literally all other members of the international community. We will continue to support each other in the UN, protecting the ideals enshrined in the UN Charter but remain ignored and undermined by Americans and their satellites.

Cuba is interested in closer relations with #BRICS. As the country chairing BRICS this year, Russia will actively facilitate this process. We will also contribute to developing Cuba-EAEU relations.

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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a solemn ceremony of unveiling a monument to Alexander Pushkin (Caracas, February 20, 2024)

💬 While the West is mindlessly rewriting history, destroying monuments and cancelling Russian culture, we, together with our Venezuelan friends, continue to respect historical memory & convey it to new generations.

Alexander Pushkin was not only a great poet who created the modern Russian language but also a diplomat, a thinker and a patriot. He wrote:

“On my honour I swear to you that I would not wish another homeland or history than that of our ancestors.”

I have no doubt that Venezuelan patriots have the same feelings for their beautiful country. Alexander Pushkin was a contemporary of Simon Bolivar, an outstanding Venezuelan statesman, military leader and politician. Both had the same ideals – freedom, equality and fraternity – and both loyally served their country.

The name of Simon Bolivar has become the symbol of struggle for freedom and independence both within and beyond Latin America. Alexander Pushkin immortalised the glorious deeds of the national hero of Venezuela by writing about the “broad-brimmed Bolivar,” a hat that became known in Russian fashion as a symbol of progressive ideals. Today, Moscow has a monument to Simon Bolivar, which was unveiled last year in the presence of Caracas Mayor Carmen Melendez.

☝️ The values which Pushkin and Bolivar upheld have not lost their significance today. Our countries are at the forefront of the struggle for the right of all nations to choose freedom, justice and respect for their history and traditions.

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