Lavrov plans multi-stop Latin America trip to expand cooperation

Lavrov plans multi-stop Latin America trip to expand cooperation

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov plans to go to Latin America by the tip of April towards the backdrop of Moscow’s warfare towards Ukraine to forge anti-Western alliances.

He plans to go to Brazil, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, he wrote in an article for Brazilian and Cuban media revealed by the Foreign Ministry in Moscow on Thursday.

Russia advocates strengthening Russian-Latin American cooperation “based on mutual support, solidarity and consideration for each other’s interests,” the article mentioned.

“We are … open to expanding cooperation on a multilateral basis, primarily as part of Russia’s dialogue with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States,” Lavrov wrote.

Last yr, Russian exports of wheat to the area elevated by 48.8% and shipments of fertilizers and petroleum merchandise additionally elevated, Lavrov identified.

Russia is raring to forge alliances in different elements of the world within the face of isolation and sanctions by the West within the wake of the Ukraine warfare.

Lavrov himself repeatedly factors out, with regard to Russia’s contacts on the African continent, in Asia and India, that the nation nonetheless has many buddies whatever the battle with Ukraine. This journey is meant to underline this.

Source: www.anews.com.tr