TEHRAN, December 02 (MNA) – President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro expressed his government's support to the Syrian government and nation in a phone call with the Syrian Arab Republic President Bashar Assad on Monday.Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro held a phone call with his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad, on Monday evening, emphasizing Venezuela's support for the Syrian government and people in confronting terrorism and the countries that support it.

Maduro said that the West and the United States are trying to weaken Syria because the country enjoys national sovereignty and independent decision-making in the region.

Bashar al-Assad, for his part, emphasized that it is the fate of independent nations to confront American and Western plots against them.

The Syrian President also said that combating terrorism is the most important challenge to confronting these plots.

MNA