Crisis in Venezuela: with the military option removed, the United States and Russia will meet in Sochi

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet on May 14 in the Sochi seaside resort on the Black Sea, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. .

The agreement to organize this second meeting was concluded at the meeting held by Lavrov and Pompeo in Finland, where they spoke of the crisis in Venezuela and in which Moscow supports the Nicolás government. Maduro and the United States is leading international support to Juan Guaidó (who proclaimed himself president in January).

At the end of the meeting, which lasted less than an hour, Mr. Lavrov repeated to the press that Russia is totally opposed to military intervention in Venezuela backed by the United States and warned that an operation of this nature would be "catastrophic and unjustified".

At the same time, he said that during his recent contacts with the Americans, he had not met any "supporters of a imprudent military solution " in the country of South America.

Russian and US diplomats met in Rovaniemi, capital of Lapland, the first face-to-face meeting since last July's Russian-Russian summit in Helsinki. Presidents of both countries, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

Lavrov called his meeting with Pompeo de "good and constructive" and said that it was a "step forward" regarding the phone conversation between Putin and Trump last week.