Nicaragua supports Putin’s policy towards peace settlement of conflicts - Ortega

MANAGUA, March 26. /TASS/. Nicaragua and Russia have similar positions on international issues, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said on Wednesday after talks with visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. "I would like to say that in international affairs we adhere to principles of peace settlement of all disputes and conflicts," he said. "Vladimir Putin shares these positions." "We are very glad when agreements are reached to ease hotbeds of tension, which are often, as we know, created deliberately," the Nicaraguan president noted. He underscored that the Western policy of sanctions "leads nowhere." That is why, in his words, U.S. President Barack Obama said that economic blockade of Cuba had failed. "Some developed countries never learn the lessons of history," he noted. "They keep on exerting economic pressure, which is doomed to failure." Read more