US President Joe BidenMOSCOW, Jun 5At the ninth Summit of the Americas, US President Joe Biden will try to persuade Latin American countries to join the White House's anti-Russian policy, but will fail, Andrei Kortunov, director general of the Russian International Affairs Council (INAC), wrote in an article for the Chinese newspaper Global Times. countries do not intend to make the Russian-Ukrainian conflict their main foreign policy priority,» he said.The Swiss Economy Minister questioned the effectiveness of measures against Russia. Most of the summit participants, including major powers such as Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, do not want to impose tough economic sanctions against Moscow, the expert explained. «On the contrary, they often see Western anti-Russian sanctions as an opportunity to fill the vacuum and conquer a stronger position in the Russian markets,» he added. 
The United States advised Zelensky to give part of the territories under the control of Russia At the end of April, the representative of the US State Department, Brian Nichols called Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela unlikely to attend the upcoming Summit of the Americas. The presidents of Mexico and Bolivia opposed such a decision and said they would not come in person if not all countries in the region received invitations to participate. The event is to be held from June 6 to 10 in the United States. After the start of the Russian military special operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, the West stepped up sanctions pressure on Moscow. As Vladimir Putin noted, the policy of containing and weakening Russia is a long-term strategy of unfriendly countries, and the main goal of the United States and Europe is to worsen the lives of millions of people. Biden «goes to bow» to Riyadh for the sake of sanctions against Russia, writes FA
