USWAR/Venezuela backs Russia's stand on Iraq: vice-president

IRNA Caracas, April 4, Itar-Tass/ACSNA/IRNA -- Venezuelan Vice-President Jose Vicente Rangel confirmed resolute support of the Venezuelan leadership for Russia's firm stand on denouncing the American-British military action against Iraq.
The vice-president said at a meeting with Russian Ambassador in Caracas Alexei Yermakov on Thursday that the Venezuelan leadership resolutely opposed continuation of this military action and stood out for "a return of a settlement of the Iraqi problem under the auspices of the UN".
The operation of the anti-Iraqi coalition becomes more
procrastinated. It will entail numerous victims, above all among
civilians, and "will tell negatively on stabilization of the system of international relations as well as in the humanitarian, economic and ecological sphere," Rangel emphasized.
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