Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said that the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance bear a special responsibility for the conflict in Ukraine, since it was not NATO that did not comply with the agreements and threatened Russia.
“Those who provoked this conflict, who have not fulfilled agreements for decades, threatening Russia for decades, preparing plans for NATO expansion for decades, are the first responsible for its de-escalation and the search for a favorable scenario for negotiations and agreements between the parties to the conflict – Russia and Ukraine,” the politician said on the air of the TV channel VTV, reports RIA Novosti.
Maduro got Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia to use all possible global discussion platforms and bilateral contacts to achieve peace, dialogue, as well as security guarantees, which Russia has long demanded.