CARACAS, April 8. /TASS/. Venezuela’s authorities plan to continue developing military-technical cooperation with Russia, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said on Monday.

"We will continue military-technical cooperation with Russia in future," Arreaza said. "The US administration should better attend to the affairs of its fifty states," he added.

El Comercio newspaper earlier reported that An-124 and Il-62 planes with Russian soldiers and 35 tonnes of cargoes had arrived to Caracas on March 23. President of the Venezuelan National Constituent Assembly Diosdado Cabello confirmed that two Russian planes had arrived in the country.

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, specialists from Russia arrived in Venezuela in strict compliance with the Latin American country’s constitution. "The stay of Russian specialists in Venezuela is governed by the agreement between the government of Russia and the government of Venezuela on military-technical cooperation signed in May 2001 and properly ratified by both countries," she said in an official commentary.