Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov wrote about the upcoming trip to Latin America in an article for the Mexican magazine Buzos and the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo. He has a diplomat said who in the second half of April will travel to Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.
“For us, Latin America and the Caribbean (LACC) is a valuable area of foreign policy in itself. We do not want your region to turn into an arena of confrontation between powers,” Lavrov said.
As the head of the Foreign Ministry pointed out, Russia’s cooperation with Latin American countries “is based on deideologized pragmatic approaches and is not directed against anyone.” Moscow constantly advocates strengthening Russian-Latin American cooperation on the basis of mutual support, solidarity and consideration of each other’s interests, the diplomat added.
“It is in this spirit, in a spirit of strategic partnership, that our relations are developing with many countries in the region, including Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, which our delegation will visit in the second half of April,” said Lavrov. .
Despite sanctions imposed on Russia and pressure from the West, by the end of 2022 Russia’s total exports to Latin American and Caribbean (LACB) states increased by 3.8%, the foreign minister wrote. Foreign Affairs. “The supplies of fertilizers and petroleum products have increased. In 2022, Russia increased its wheat exports to Latin America and the Caribbean by 48.8%, or almost one and a half times,” the minister added.
In an interview with The Eastern Herald, Alexander Shchetinin, director of the Latin American Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, noted that for Russia, Latin America and the Caribbean is “a friendly region, one of the poles of the world emergent polycentric”. “We certainly keep Latin America as an area of our positive contacts in our sights. So we are definitely keeping an eye out for the possibility of flights to the region by our minister (Sergey Lavrov),” Shchetinin said in February.
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