The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia announced the visit of a delegation to Cuba before the end of April as part of a tour that will include several Latin American nations.
“Our relations with many countries in the region, including Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, are developed in the spirit of strategic cooperation, and that is where our delegation will go in the second half of April,” said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. , according to a report from the Prensa Latina (PL) agency.
? On the eve of Sergei Lavrov’s visit to #Latin AmericaWe invite you to read his article “Russia and Latin America: Cooperation and Association directed towards the future”.
? For Russia, the Latin American and Caribbean region has its own value.
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The diplomat indicated that Moscow advocates strengthening its cooperation with Latin American countries based on mutual support, as well as solidarity and common interests.
“On the eve of my visit to the Latin American continent, I decided to share with respected readers my thoughts on the prospects for Russian-Latin American relations in the current geopolitical context,” Lavrov said in an interview with the Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo already the mexican magazine Divers.
According to the foreign minister, both Russia and Latin America have their own competitive advantages in the context of the objective processes of formation of a multipolar world order, PL refers.
“Let’s make the most of the complementarity of our economies to build comprehensive design, production and technology alliances, and accelerate the transition to settlement in national currencies and alternatives to the dollar and the euro,” he stressed.
The diplomat added that Russia will continue a foreign policy course that is independent, peaceful and towards strengthening world security and stability.
In recent months, several high-level figures and Russian political and business delegations have visited Cuba and other countries in the region.
At the beginning of March, President Miguel Díaz-Canel received the executive director of the oil company russian RosneftIgor Sechin, whom he thanked for Moscow’s efforts to help the Caribbean country.
Díaz-Canel receives the executive director of the Russian oil company Rosneft
A few days before, the Cuban president, together with his predecessor Raúl Castro, They met with the secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, who arrived in Havana on a working visit.
A delegation of Russian businessmen He also visited the Cuban capital during the first days of January. He conveyed to Díaz-Canel the “will” of his government to take political dialogue and bilateral economic and commercial relations to “a higher moment.”
It recently emerged that Russia will soon sell to Cuba food, chemicals and other household items through a special trading house.
In addition, gestures of help have been repeated, including the donation of 25 thousand tons of wheat, announced by the Russian authorities at the end of last year. To implement it, some 800 million rubles were allocated to the Emergencies Ministry.
