RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called Tuesday for like-minded countries to “join forces” against the “blackmail” of Western sanctions, as the longtime diplomat continued his tour of Latin America.
Discussing Russia’s war on Ukraine with counterpart Yvan Gil in Caracas, Lavrov referred to allies Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua as countries “that choose their own path.”
All are, like Russia, the subject of damaging economic sanctions, he said.
“It is necessary to join forces to counter the attempts of blackmail and illegal unilateral pressure of the West,” Lavrov said at a joint press conference with Gil.
Russia’s top diplomat is on a week-long Latin American tour that started in Brazil and will also take him to Nicaragua and Cuba — where the leftist governments have hostile relations with the United States.
He spoke as Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, under fire from the United States for “parroting Russian and
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