Russia expects Maduro regime to pay $ 200 million debt by September

The next installment of $ 200 million in Venezuelan debt to Russia expires in the fallsaid Friday the finance minister of the European country Anton Siluanov.

Venezuela had to pay Russia more than $ 100 million in interest at the end of March and Siluanov said the payment had been made on time.

"We hope that the second payment will also be made, which expires this year, in the fall"Siluanov told reporters in Beijing that the channel covered the months of September and October in Russia.

At the end of 2017, the two countries signed an intergovernmental protocol on the restructuring of the Venezuelan debt.

Under the agreement, Caracas must repay the debt contracted, about $ 3.15 billion, according to the agency. Interfaxin ten years with minimum payments in the first six years.

April 18, Russia rejected a series of sanctions imposed by the United States against the Central Bank of Venezuela and the announcement of the reactivation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, which allows the expropriation of property expropriated in Cuban courts after the Cuban revolution.

"All this is totally unacceptable, let's oppose. Venezuela and Cuba are our allies in this region, they are our strategic partners. We will do everything that depends on us to receive our support "Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said, according to the official agency RIA Nóvosti.

Riabkov described these sanctions as "absolutely illegal and legitimate."

Russian spokeswoman Maria Zajárova said in her weekly press conference that Moscow "is against any unilateral sanctions". "Sanctions are possible only if they are developed within the framework of international institutions, such as the UN, on the basis of international law, collectively".

The diplomat said that this type of decision should not be taken on the basis of the interests of only one country.

With information from Reuters and EFE