VENEZUELA’S interim President Delcy Rodriguez stated that relations with the US have suffered an unprecedented “stain”, even as she asserted that the country will continue pursuing a diversified economic strategy engaging major markets across all continents, El Cooperante reported.
Speaking during a live broadcast on state television VTV, Rodriguez said the US has adopted a policy of “exclusion” toward Venezuela, while emphasising that economic and trade ties between the two countries are neither unusual nor disproportionate.
“The first thing I must say is that there is a stain on our relations that has never occurred before in our history. But it is also important to emphasize that the economic and trade relations between the United States and Venezuela are neither extraordinary nor irregular.
Seventy-one per cent of Venezuelan exports are concentrated in eight countries, and of those, 25 per cent are destined for the United States. Venezuela’s economic relations are diversified across various markets around the world,” she said, according to El Cooperante. — ANI