Russian FM discusses regional, global agendas with heads of diplomatic missions of Latin American, Caribbean countries - Russian Foreign Ministry

MOSCOW. May 7 (Interfax) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has discussed cooperation and the global agenda during his meeting with the heads of diplomatic missions of the Latin American and Caribbean countries accredited in Moscow, a statement on the Russian Foreign Ministry's website said on Thursday.

The meeting involved a "deepened exchange of views on the current state of Russian-Latin American relations in the political, trade and economic, and cultural and humanitarian spheres. Special emphasis was made on the promising areas of cooperation and successful examples of the wide-ranging interaction in bilateral format and on international platforms," the statement said.

"During an exchange of views on a wide range of issues concerning the current situation in the Western Hemisphere and globally on the whole, a number of aspects of the regional and global agendas were considered through the prism of the present world order's transformation in the direction of multipolarity, with the Latin American region's increasing role as one of its pillars," the statement said.

During the meeting its attendees stressed the imperative need to collectively uphold the norms and principles of international law, including the UN Charter, in all their entirety and interconnectedness, it said.