Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Moscow on October 14 on a two-day visit and held talks with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Moscow on October 14 for talks with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev.
Chavez's two-day visit is part of his international tour, which also includes Belarus, Ukraine and Iran.
Chavez had dinner with Medvedev in the Russian president's residence in Gorki just outside Moscow.
The two leaders discussed pressing bilateral issues.
This is Chavez' ninth visit to Moscow.
The two leaders, along with delegations from each of their countries, continued high-level talks in the Kremlin on October 15.
"We are moving on to new agreements on a wide range of projects," Medvedev said during talks in Moscow. "We have a strategic partnership, we are close friends."
Medvedev said Venezuela acted "like a real friend" when it followed Russia in recognizing the former Georgian republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in 2009.
Before the talks Hugo Chaves, foreground right, attended the ceremony of laying the cornerstone of a monument to Simon Bolivar, Venezuelan national hero.
An agreement on the construction of a nuclear power station in the South American country as part of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's visit to Moscow.
An agreement on the construction of a nuclear power station in the South American country as part of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's visit to Moscow
Chavez presented the Russian president with a package of Venezuelan sweets and a jar of banana jam.
Russia may invest hundreds of millions of dollars in the cultivation of bananas in Venezuela, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said.
