Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov has arrived in Caracas to meet Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, the Interfax news agency quoted Borisov's office as saying on Saturday.
Maduro and Russian President Vladimir Putin briefly discussed Caracas' debt obligations to Russia during Madurov's visit to Moscow last month, the Kremlin has said, without providing details.
Borisov oversees the Russian defence industrial sector in the government and is also a co-chairman of the Russian-Venezuelan intergovernmental commission.
The meeting between Maduro and the Russian official is due to happen also days after Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visited Cuba. Medvedev said that Moscow would find ways to help Cuba secure supplies of oil and petroleum products.
