The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodriguezarrived this Sunday in Russia to participate in the Brics Plus Ministerial Council meetingat the invitation of his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.
Upon arrival at the Nizhny Novgorod-Strigino International Airport, the chancellor of the Caribbean nation and the delegation accompanying him was received by the vice president of the Government of the region Dmitry Starosin and the deputy governor of the homonymous city Petr Bannikov, among other authorities, reported the Prensa Latina news agency.
At the meeting that will take place on June 10 and 11, the head of Cuban diplomacy will hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts from several countries such as Belarus, Egypt, Brazil and Türkiye, with the aim of analyzing the state of bilateral relations.
Likewise, Rodríguez will speak at the expanded session of the Ministerial Council where the 10 member states of the group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia and Iran) will be present, as well as about one twenty heads of foreign policy departments from like-minded countries, which represent regional interaction formats.
The meeting, in the opinion of the hosts, will be the appropriate platform for the exchange of opinions on current issues on the world agenda, including in the context of joint efforts to strengthen true multilateralism in international relations.
The ministers will discuss current regional issues, interaction between the BRICS countries within the framework of the association and on other platforms, as well as the prospects for multifaceted cooperation in the year of Russia’s presidency of the bloc in three main areas: politics and security, economy and finance and humanitarian relations.
At the end of the meeting, the Cuban Foreign Minister will travel to Moscow to complete an official visit where he will be received by the head of Russian diplomacy on June 12, in order to analyze a range of issues regarding the deepening of the bilateral association in this field. political, commercial, economic and scientific-technical.
Rodríguez arrived in the Eurasian giant after completing an official visit to China where he exchanged with several authorities from the Asian country, including his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, with whom he spoke about the excellent state of ties and the strong historical ties of brotherhood and friendship between both nations.
The head of Foreign Relations of the largest of the Antilles is accompanied by the Cuban ambassador to Russia, Julio Garmendía, the head of the Foreign Minister’s Secretariat, Nelson Tamayo, the senior specialist of the Directorate of Europe and Canada, Mercedes Martínez and the specialist of the Directorate of Multilateral Political Affairs Nadiezda Arredondo.
