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From April 17 to 21, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited several Latin American countries: Brazil, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.
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| Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Photo: AFP/TTXVN |
According to the announcement of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Russian Foreign Minister will have a busy work program including meetings with leaders of countries and talks with their counterparts.
The Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that Latin America is a region with friendly relations with Russia and that Russia plans to maintain an active dialogue with the region, developing constructive cooperation without any external impositions. The main goal of Foreign Minister Lavrov's five-day visit is to strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation with Latin American countries in the political , trade and economic, educational, humanitarian, cultural and other fields.
In an article titled “Russia and Latin America: Cooperation and Partnership for the Future” published on the Russian Foreign Ministry ’s portal recently, Foreign Minister Lavrov stressed that the rapidly changing geopolitical landscape has opened up new opportunities for the development of mutually beneficial cooperation between Russia and Latin American countries. For Russia, the community of Latin American and Caribbean states is a foreign policy area in its own right. Russia does not want the region to become an arena of confrontation between major powers, and stressed the importance of a future-oriented partnership between Russia and the region. To achieve a future-oriented partnership, Lavrov expressed Russia’s commitment to supporting Latin American countries in addressing regional challenges such as inequality, poverty, and environmental degradation.
Analysts say that if Latin American countries consider the European Union (EU) and the United States as partners, they must also consider rebalancing their relations with China and Russia. According to Liberation, China is a key investor in Latin America, while Russia is an important source of chemical fertilizers, which the food industry in the region cannot ignore.
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