Venezuela Recognizes S. Ossetia's Independence, Visits Russia

by sara star | September 11, 2009 at 04:05 am

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The Unified States of Russia may soon unfold. Belarus was the first country to join with Russia and South Ossetia wants to be the second.

South Ossetia can become a part of the Unified State of Russia and Belarus, Eduard Kokoity, the President of South Ossetia, said in an interview with Itogy magazine August 31. “Tskhinvali is willing to build unified relations with Russia so that the Ossetians living in the south and in the north did not have any borders between them. We want to become a part of the Unified State with Russia,” the president said.

“Russia does not want somebody else’s territory, and we understand that. But we want to build a union with Russia – similar to Russia’s union with Belarus. The forms of association can be different,” the president said.

Venezuela president, Hugo Chavez, announced yesterday that it recognizes South Ossetia as a sovereign country. Russia, Nicaragua and Hamas have already done so.

Apart from Nicaragua, the Hamas government in Gaza has been the only other entity to recognize the independence of the two republics. Announcements of pending recognition from Somalia and Western Sahara have not been followed up.

In a surprise announcement on Thursday, Chavez confirmed that his country would join Russia and Nicaragua in recognizing the independence of Georgia’s rebel republics, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. This is his eighth visit to Russia.

Russia and Venezuela have often discussed the concept of a multipolar world, and that power cannot be cncentrated in one place in the world.

Moscow recognized South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent on Aug. 26 last year after crushing a Georgian attempt to retake South Ossetia, which split from Tbilisi’s rule in the early 1990s.

...During a visit to Orenburg last fall, Chavez accepted a $1 billion loan to buy Russian arms but said only that Venezuela fully supported Moscow in the Georgia conflict.

Chavez and Medvedev were to sign 10 agreements on energy military and space cooperation Thursday, but Kremlin aide Sergei Prikhodko said this should not be viewed as a quid pro quo.

Russia and Venezuela will open a joint bank with an initial capital of $4 billion to finance joint projects, Medvedev said after the talks. He did not say where the bank’s money would come from.

Chavez accused the United States of monopolizing global asset markets and said he hoped that the ruble would soon become a global reserve currency, a statement that should please Medvedev, who has advocated this since last year.

“Sooner or later this bubble will burst,” Chavez said in reference to the dollar’s position. “We expect that the ruble will become part of the world’s reserve currency system, and that maybe also the [Chinese] yuan and the [Venezuelan] bolivar will become such currencies.”

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israeli.agent

at 04:38 on September 11th, 2009

Me too..Looks like he forgot that Soviet Union is no more and the Ruble is not the same Ruble.

Hmm..Bolivar..? No offence , Bolivians..but is it not taking it too far..?

.Agent.

tikun

at 06:49 on September 11th, 2009

Just got to love that man. Chavez you rock the world. NOT

Paschen

at 07:31 on September 11th, 2009

There is a saying that applies here.

"Who laughs last, does laugh the best."

jazzyzazzy

at 09:40 on September 11th, 2009

One World remember.!

sara star

at 14:40 on September 17th, 2009

"United in Diversity"

See coin presented at G8 meeting by Medvedev.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev illustrated his call for a supranational currency to replace the dollar by pulling from his pocket a sample coin of a “united future world currency.”

Even if Russia’s call for a global currency failed to gain much traction at a G8 summit, President Dmitry Medvedev took home a coin meant to symbolize that the dream may one day come true.

Roy C

at 12:26 on September 11th, 2009

As soon as we get rid of these fools who won't let us drill for our own oil, won't let us build atomic reactors and, to boot, while being on the left, reason just like Wall Street Free Traders, allowing the destruction of our manufacturing base, we can begin the re-construction of the American economy.

If we don't do that, we will collapse horribly.

But Russia still has enormous problems with alcohol and suicide and Russians don't want to have children. They have a bleak future as well until they solve their problems.

Venezuela will undergo some kind of significant catastrophe before exorcising their nation of its anti-democratic element.

Grace H

at 12:44 on September 11th, 2009

Is it really possible to reconstruct a capitalist system?

Roy C

at 14:52 on September 11th, 2009

Is it really possible to reconstruct a failed communist state that did its share of killing the 100 million dead that communism "liquidated"?

After Castro dies, that communist state will die as well.

China has resuscitated itself from the hell of communism to something of a future with its capitalism.

Grace H

at 15:38 on September 11th, 2009

Neither communist for a myriad of reasons. Most notably the totalitarian government infrastructure and dictatorships.

rng

at 17:43 on September 11th, 2009

Is it really possible to reconstruct a failed communist state

It wasn't the question asked

sara star

at 14:43 on September 11th, 2009

I just wanted to add part of the official speech...

Venezuela had a population of only four million people 55 years ago, but today it is home to 30 million people and the population growth is 1.8% per annum. We have many children. Personally, I have three grandchildren and will soon have four. Forecasts predict that Venezuela’s population will rise to 50 million by 2050, by the middle of the century.

We are a young country, a dynamic country, a country that only recently liberated itself from colonialism, as we were enslaved and oppressed first by a European empire, and then by the empire of the Yankees. Now we are free, and we need to build up our defence capability.

sara star

at 13:49 on September 11th, 2009

Russia is once again a superpower. Despite the crisis, Russia stands firmly on its feet again, while Venezuela is a nucleus of what will become a centre of power in Latin America, where we are currently seeing the formation of strength and authority.

I recently read your speech at the BRIC summit. Venezuela is not formally a member of BRIC, but it is present at BRIC events through its connections with Russia, Brazil, China, and India who all are our friends and partners. I noted that in your speech you mentioned a very important thing, and Hu Jintao agreed with you. You said that “A unipolar world is maintained artificially by the U.S., its large consumer market, enormous budget deficit, tax deficit, and the currency, which is now falling”.

I can say that the unipolar world has fallen apart. We spoke about this nearly ten years ago with Vladimir Putin when we took a walk in these very woods one night, and now, here I am with you. Back then, we had been talking about creating a multipolar world, but now, this world has come to be, it already exists.

israeli.agent

at 11:17 on September 12th, 2009

Latest from Comrade President Chavez..

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Spain's King Juan Carlos appeared to have put their dramatic public spat of 2007 well behind them when they met on Friday, even sharing a joke about the monarch's recently grown beard.

Chavez said to the king: "You've grown a beard like Fidel," referring to former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, to which the king replied: "I'm changing my look."

Relations between the two have been closely monitored since the king shouted: "Why don't you shut up?" at Chavez after the Venezuelan leader called former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar a fascist at an Iberian-American Summit in 2007

.Agent.