Trump and Putin spoke for an hour and a half by phone: Venezuela, one of the topics discussed – 03/05/2019

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov later confirmed that their leaders, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, spoke for an hour and a half by phone this Friday. In Moscow, they did not want to say what they were talking about, Sanders gave more clues: Venezuela, North Korea and nuclear weapons.

Sanders said that among the different issues they were addressing, the two leaders talked about Venezuela, after Tuesday, the self-proclaimed "president in charge", Juan Guaidó, announced the start of the Libertad operation intended to overthrow the government of Nicolás Maduro. A movement that has ended in a resounding failure and that the Chavan regime labeled as "Knocking skirmish".

Sanders said that President Trump "reiterated the need for a peaceful transition "to Venezuela.

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had a telephone conversation on Thursday in which they exchanged criticisms for the US and Russian influence in business. Venezuela. And both of them should be face to face next week for the same problem in Finland.

Washington accused Moscow of preventing Maduro's resignation and frustrated Operation Liberty, warning the Venezuelan president against political moves by Chavez and opposition officials to overthrow him, which would have forced the Minister of National Defense, Vladimir Padrino among others, they will withdraw. This version, however, is only that of Washington. It is not clear that Godfather or other senior officials were reluctant to change sides. In fact Thursday, they all appeared with Maduroat least 4500 soldiers of the Bolivarian Armed Forces in Caracas.

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Sanders wanted to ratify that "the United States supports the people of Venezuela" and, to questions of the press concerning a possible military intervention, insisted on "all options are on the table". Russia announced Thursday the establishment of a group of countries to the UN for "counteract" a possible invasion.

The Kremlin spokesman confirmed the phone conversation, but declined to provide additional information.

Trump and Putin also spoke about the report of the special prosecutor Robert Mueller, who investigated the links between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. The Mueller report determines that there was no collusion but does not exclude that Trump has committed a crime of obstruction of justice.

"The two leaders knew that there was no collusion," Sanders said. The discussion on the Mueller report was brief.

Trump and Putin also badyzed the situation in North Korea, after the contacts of the two countries with the communist regime to progress towards the denuclearization and pacification of the Korean peninsula.

In addition, they considered the possibility of signing a new agreement on the control of nuclear include China. Trump has withdrawn the United States from the INF bilateral treaty accusing Russia of non-compliance.

Sanders played down the long speech that Trump and Putin had, remembering that they talked on the phone several times. Last year, Putin said that they spoke "regularly".

Source: EFE and DPA

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