Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, signed Tuesday night three agreements to promote scientific, cultural and diplomatic relations, after a private meeting they held in the headquarters of the Venezuelan foreign ministry, in Caracas.

One of the agreements provides for the creation of a Russian scientific and cultural center in Caracas, in order to bring the people of both countries closer together.

The top diplomats also signed a consultation plan between the two foreign ministries from 2011 to 2014, in view of the strategic nature of the relations between Moscow and Caracas. They also signed a joint statement that sums up the scope of the bilateral meeting, which focused on the search of mechanisms to consolidate the building of a multipolar world, state-run news agency Agencia Venezolana de Noticias (AVN) reported.