Putin and Maduro will meet on the sidelines of the BRICS summit

The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, will meet this Wednesday with Nicolás Maduro, who arrived this Tuesday in the Russian city of Kazan to participate in the XVI Summit of the group of emerging economies BRICS to which the country intends to join, the Kremlin reported.

“I confirm it,” the spokesman for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov, told the press when referring to this quote.

What will Putin and Maduro talk about?

The Kremlin’s advisor for International Affairs, Yuri Ushakov, added that Putin and Maduro will talk about “bilateral affairs and cooperation within the framework of the BRICS.”

“There are a million issues (to be discussed),” Ushakov said on the eve of the Russian-Venezuelan negotiations.

Together with his wife, representative Cilia Flores, Maduro landed at the Tukái airport in Kazan, days after the arrival in the Russian city of its Minister of Communication, Freddy Ñáñez; the executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, and the chancellor, Yván Gil.

“I want to convey a greeting from the deepest love of brotherhood, from peace diplomacy, to all the people of Russia,” Maduro told journalists, highlighting the unprecedented participation of a Venezuelan head of state in these summits.

In his opinion, the BRICS bloc – founded by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – has become “the epicenter of the new multipolar world, of the new geopolitics, of peace diplomacy» and in a «hope» for the countries of the global south.

In this sense, it hopes that the group will grant these countries “the possibility of accessing another economy, one that is not managed based on sanctions and blackmail,” in reference to the coercive measures imposed by Washington on its Government.

Last April, Maduro expressed his desire to visit Russia and the Kremlin confirmed the start of preparations for that trip, which, however, was postponed without a date.