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Chavez to discuss arms, energy deals in Moscow
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-09-10 11:35

Chavez to discuss arms, energy deals in Moscow
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez addresses the audience as he visits Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in Moscow September 9, 2009. [Agencies]

MOSCOW: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez praised Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Wednesday for standing up to the United States, kicking off a visit to Moscow that the Kremlin said will focus on major energy and military agreements.

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Chavez began his visit with a 2-1/2 hour speech to Moscow students in which he berated the United States for seeking to control the world with a "terrorist" empire.

"The United States wants to dominate the entire world... The empire of the Yanks will fall this century and I am not talking about the end of the century but in the next decades," Chavez told about 1,000 students.

"That is why it is so important that Russia is getting up from its knees -- this is the great inheritance from Putin," he said in a speech which feted Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin and Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

Chavez was greeted warmly by students of the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University.

The Kremlin, which under Putin's presidency from 2000 to 2008 frequently clashed with Washington, has previously sought to distance itself from Chavez's fiery anti-US rhetoric.

The Kremlin said talks with President Dmitry Medvedev and Putin, who now serves as prime minister, would focus on widening military and energy cooperation.

"About 10 agreements which embrace the fuel and energy sector, military technical cooperation and finance have been prepared," said Kremlin foreign policy aide Sergei Prikhodko.

Arms, Energy

Chavez, a former soldier, has purchased more than $4 billion worth of Russian arms to rearm the Venezuelan army, including fighters and thousands of Kalashnikovs.

The Kremlin said no major arms deals were expected during the visit but that Russia could lend Venezuela money to buy its military equipment.

Chavez has said he wants to buy dozens of Russian tanks to counter a planned increase in US military cooperation with Venezuela's Andean neighbour Colombia.

Venezuela and Colombia came close to war last year and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has accused Chavez of supporting FARC Marxist rebels fighting Bogota.

Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA and a consortium of Russian companies were expected to present a joint venture to develop a block in the Orinoco oil belt this month.

"An agreement between the Russian oil consortium and PDVSA will be signed in the near future," Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin told reporters in Moscow. "The creation of a joint venture is yet to be approved by Venezuela's parliament."

It was unclear if a formal contact to jointly develop the Junin 6 block, with estimated production capacity of 200,000 barrels per day, would be signed during the visit.

The Russian consortium includes Rosneft, Gazprom, Lukoil, TNK-BP and Surgutneftegaz. It also intends to bid for blocks in the Carabobo project.

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