Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived on an official visit to Kuwait yesterday and held talks with the emirate's heir to the throne, Meshal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti state news agency KUNA reported, quoted by Reuters.

Venezuelan state television showed footage of the arrival of Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores, welcoming various Kuwaiti officials.

They were accompanied by Venezuelan ministers and officials in the fields of foreign policy, agriculture, communications, tourism and transport, KUNA reported.

The agency did not give more details about the visit, which comes after Maduro's recent visits to Turkey, Algeria and Iran as part of his first major tour abroad since visiting Russia in 2019, BTA explains.

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