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Tehran 7 February _Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has condemned the United States for seeking "regime change" in Venezuela by imposing sanctions on the country's state energy giant Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), supporting opposition leader Juan Guaido and attempting to create a pretext for military intervention there.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)_“We haven't brought any proposals of any kind; we respect our partners. You began your question with the issue of whether Russia could agree to conditions for the removal of (Venezuelan President Nicolas) Maduro. We're beyond that.
“The European Union has been forming and developing initiatives with the Lima Group, and we don't consider these initiatives useful. We talk about the need for national dialogue without any pre-conditions. We share this initiative and posture with Mexico. Our Western partners also think dialogue is necessary but with the objective of addressing the criteria for regime change, and I think that is not mediation, but rather an imposition of foreign models. We hear calls from Washington that there are no options but presidential change,” Lavrov told reporters on a visit to Mexico on Thursday.
The Russian foreign minster added that Washington was "threatening that all options are on the table" and instigating "provocations" against the Maduro government.
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