Russia (bbabo.net), - The US authorities, with their statements regarding Russia, deny the countries of the Western Hemisphere the freedom to choose their foreign policy and partners. The Embassy of the Russian Federation in Washington wrote about this on its Twitter.

This is how Russian diplomats reacted to the words of US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland that Latin American countries, resorting to Moscow's assistance, are a "natural threat to democracy" in the Western Hemisphere, writes TASS.

It is emphasized that by doing so, the United States "denies the sovereign states of the region the free choice of foreign policy and partners." In a key to international security right, which, as First Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said earlier, "cannot be the subject of discussion or bargaining," the diplomatic mission added.

The number of states friendly to Russia in Latin America has recently been growing. This was stated in January by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, answering a question whether Moscow plans to further increase cooperation with Latin America against the backdrop of deteriorating relations with the United States and the West. Among close partners and friends, the minister named Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. He noted that Russia also has close contacts with Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil as a BRICS member country. According to Lavrov, the new government of Chile is also interested in ensuring that relations with the Russian Federation "are not a victim of the so-called Monroe Doctrine, to which Washington is still committed."

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