View of the high-rise building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. File photoMOSCOW, June 8In connection with Western sanctions, Russia is working on alternative financial mechanisms to Western countries with Latin American countries, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. «economic cooperation, we are consistently working on the introduction of alternative financial mechanisms to Western ones. These are cashless payments, the establishment of direct correspondent relations between banks, and so on. We are also taking a number of other steps in this direction,» she said at a briefing on Wednesday. Russia is also following with interest behind the discussions that are currently going on around the organization and content of the Summit of the Americas taking place these days, she added. latin america
