MADRID 24 Oct. () –
The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, acknowledged this Thursday that his position with respect to Venezuela differs from that of the Government of Brazil and trusts in the country’s future accession to the BRICS. “The rule for admitting any candidate is that there is consensus,” he said at a press conference.
“All members of the organization need to agree. Without that it is impossible to take that step,” Putin said when asked about the absence of Venezuela in the group of twelve countries that were included as States this Thursday. partner, as a step prior to its definitive inclusion.
“Our positions do not coincide with those of Brazil on the issue of Venezuela. I say it openly,” acknowledged the Russian president, who has supported the victory of his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, in the last and controversial elections.
In that sense, Putin has expressed that he trusts that relations between Brazil and Venezuela will return to their traditional normality.
The day before, the Brazilian media announced that Venezuela and Nicaragua were left out, at Brazil’s request, from a list finally made up of twelve countries that would become classified as BRICS partner states, including Bolivia, Cuba, Nigeria, Belarus. , Indonesia, or Vietnam.
Relations between Venezuela and Brazil are not going through their best moment, after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, although without being as explicit as other leaders in the region, has reproached Maduro for not having yet presented evidence of his triumph. in the elections.
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