Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Wednesday accused the US and Europe of choosing “economic suicide” to punish Moscow for invading Ukraine.
“In Europe, they are announcing an economic recession because Europe and the United States have opted for economic suicide in an attempt to kill Russia,” the minister said at a public event broadcast on Venezuelan state television.
Maduro predicted that “a major global recession is on the way” at a time when Venezuela is beating “the world record for economic growth in the real economy, not in oil”, which he said was more than 20% in the current quarter.
“We need to study the impact of the global recession on the economies of Latin America and Venezuela,” he stressed.
“Europe and the United States have decided to commit economic and social suicide of their societies, their economies, to harm and end Russia,” Venezuela’s president said.
Maduro stressed that even “because of a Russophobic obsession, they prefer the energy crisis, the power outages, the economic crisis, the uncontrolled inflation to peace negotiations with Russia, giving ‘guarantees’ to Russia” to “make an agreement of peace, of unity”. .
Maduro stressed that this is why, in a “letter to humanity” recently sent to the UN, he joined the initiative of the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to set up an International Committee for Dialogue and Peace. within the United Nations Council of Security, to strive for “fair peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine and for all humanity”.
“We must reactivate the mechanisms of diplomacy, dialogue, politics with a capital ‘P’ and not allow the conflict to continue to escalate from the military to the economic, from the economic to the social, from the social to the political, from politics to the military, and one day we will be embroiled in a major world war of a nuclear nature,” he explained.
The president of Venezuela exclaimed, “Holy God! Don’t let this happen! Don’t allow it!”
“Humanity is crying out for peace, understanding, dialogue and diplomacy, and we, from Venezuela, as fighters that we are, are crying out for dialogue, diplomacy and peace. It’s that simple,” he said.
Source: DN
