The Russian president, Dmitri Medvedev, is going tomorrow in his first Latin American tour, which aims to culminate with the “return” to the region that Russia boosts in recent months.

Medvedev will arrive weekend in Lima, where he will participate the meeting of Heads of State and Government of APEC, will visit Brazil between 24 and 26, Venezuela between 26 and 27 and Cuba on 27.

Alexei Sazónov, Assistant Director of Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, said that the development of relations with Latin America does not depend on their relations with other countries or cyclical factors.

Sazónov, who has just returned from a trip by seven Latin American countries expressed their indignation by the press comments that this “incursion” to “courtyard” of the United States is the Kremlin’s response to the policy of Washington in the space of the former Union Soviet.

“The basis of Russia’s interest in Latin America are their own national interests,” he said.

In the political sphere, Moscow is in favor of a multipolar world and is interested therefore in maintaining a “fluid political dialogue” with the countries of Latin America, he said.

The economic and commercial relationship of Russia and Latin American countries this year can reach $ 15 billion, said the Russian agency RIA Novosti.

Via: Miami Herald.