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Venezuelan Vice-President Ramón Carrizalez reported on Thursday in Moscow that President Hugo Chávez will possibly visit Russia at the end of July, but did not provide the exact day.

"The exact date of our president's visit to Russia is not known yet, but it could take place ending July," he said, after a meeting with Russian Vice-Prime Minister Alexandr Zhukov.

During Chávez's visit to Moscow, both countries are expected to execute an agreement on mutual protection and encouragement of investments, said Zhukov, according to news agency Interfax.

"There remains only a question to be settled (to determine the legal and contractual bases of the relations). I think that during Hugo Chávez's visit we will succeed in reaching an agreement," he said.