Moscow, Nov 8 (EFE) .- Russia has reached an agreement with Venezuela to restructure the debt of the Latin American country, amounting to almost 3,000 million dollars, announced today Anton Siluánov, the Russian Minister of Finance.

"We have a pact to restructure Venezuela's debt, Venezuelans are willing to restructure under the agreed conditions," He told the local press.

Siluánov assured that the corresponding documents are already being drafted, since both governments were marked as a deadline on November 15.

In addition, He said that Russia will impose very advantageous payment conditions on its main Latin American partner, especially in the first tranche, given the economic difficulties it is facing. Venezuela.

At the end of 2011, Russia granted Venezuela a credit worth 4,000 million dollars for the purchase of weapons, which Caracas returned without delay until March. 2016.

In his last visit to Russia a little over a month ago the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, addressed this issue with the Kremlin's leader, Vladimir Putin.

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In August of this year, the Russian state oil giant Rosneft transferred to Venezuela 6,000 million dollars as advances for supplies of Venezuelan oil to that company between now and 2019.

The state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) fulfilled at the end of October with the first of the large international debt payments that the Caribbean country faces in the next few weeks, to pay about 900 million dollars that the company had to pay as depreciation to the holders of their bonds.