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Kremlin slams ‘usurpation’ of power in Venezuela, calls Maduro ‘legitimate’ leader
MOSCOW, Jan 24, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Moscow on Thursday stood by Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, calling him the crisis-hit country’s legitimate leader and denouncing the opposition’s “usurpation of power”.
“We consider attempted usurpation of power in Venezuela as… a breach of the foundations of international law,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. “Maduro is the legitimate head of state,” he added.
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