Colombian President Ivan Duque said the country is ready to provide energy to Western countries to partially replace its imports from Russia. TASS.
He stated that Colombia can contribute to the solution of this problem and is ready to increase oil, gas and coal production.
“We have one of the largest stocks” [угля] in the world and we don’t use it [для производства] energy,” Duque said.
He also said Colombia would increase coal supplies to Germany.
Colombia before declaration Desire to increase oil supply to the United States. At the same time, White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said that the United States is not actively discussing oil purchases with Venezuela.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a special operation in Ukraine in response to a request for help from the heads of the DPR and LPR. Ukraine broke off diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation. Many countries, especially the US President Joe Biden, imposed restrictions against Russia. forbidden Import of Russian energy carriers into the country.