MOSCOW. March 20 (Interfax) - The Rome consultations on Venezuela between Russia and the United States have exposed some principled differences, but Moscow finds the dialogue with the U.S. on this issue as possible and advisable, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
"The interlocutors had a frank and substantial exchange of opinions that has revealed a number of principled differences in evaluating the causes and origins of the current crisis in Venezuela. However, Moscow believes that the dialogue with the U.S. on this issue in strict compliance with the UN Charter and based on the observance of the fundamental principles of international law is possible and reasonable," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement published on its website.
The consultations between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams, who addressed the Venezuelan crisis, were held in Rome on Tuesday. Members of the Russian Security Council and the U.S. National Security Council attended the talks.
"While discussing the prospects and parameters of settling the current situation in Venezuela, Ryabkov particularly emphasized that our country will further call for the settlement of the crisis by the Venezuelans as part of an inclusive political dialogue and in accordance with the Constitution and the country's domestic legal regulations and without a destructive and, what's more, forcible meddling from the outside," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.