Russia has run to negotiate in the dialogue proposed by Nicolás Maduro with the opposition and wants to include China

Russia on Wednesday called on the Venezuelan opposition to participate in a dialogue with Nicolás Maduro and badured that she is willing to participate in "international formats" of mediation to try to solve the current situation in the country.

"We are ready to participate in international (mediation) efforts in these acceptable formats for Venezuelan parties"Confronted," said Sergei Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, at a press conference.

Russia, a close ally of Chavez and with strong economic interests in the South American country, is closely following the crisis and has defended Maduro as "legitimate president", rejecting the self-proclamation of Juan Guaidó as as acting president. The leader of Chavez badured that he was ready to receive the opposition, but he ruled out the possibility of holding presidential elections and even threatened to call early parliamentary elections, directed against the Assembly where the ruling party is in the minority.

The head of Russian diplomacy He asked the opposition to abandon any previous condition that might be and to start a dialogue with Maduro. and denounced the refusal of anticochavism to propose an international mediation.

According to Mr. Lavrov, any mediation initiative must be "impartial" and bring together "a wide range of international actors influencing both the government and the opposition". For this reason, he stated that he was conducting consultations on the issue with representatives of China, Latin American countries and Europe.

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at his press conference that, as far as he can understand, Moscow has not yet received a concrete proposal from President Maduro in this regard.

(With information from EFE and Reuters)