Medvedev brands Russia-Venezuela relations as key security factor
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev told his Venezuelan counterpart
Hugo Chávez that active cooperation between Moscow and
Caracas "has become one of the key regional security factors"
in Latin America.
"In the last few years, contacts and relationships between
Russia and Venezuela have become not only stable but also dynamic,"
Medvedev said when welcoming Chávez at Meiendorf Castle,
the Russian president residence outside Moscow.
Medvedev added that the impressive growth in bilateral trade
between Venezuela and Russia, that reached USD 1.1 billion
last year (a 100 percent increase with respect to 2006), is
a proof of this fact. The Russian president made a call to
"optimize" cooperation, which is strongly linked to the purchasing
of Russian military hardware by the Venezuelan government.
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