Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a meeting with Foreign Minister of the Plurinational State of Bolivia Celinda Sosa Lunda on the sidelines of the BRICS Foreign Ministers Council meeting, Rio de Janeiro, April 29, 2025

Good afternoon,

It is a pleasure to see you. It is gratifying that we have established an additional platform for regular engagement. We congratulate you on participating in BRICS events as a partner country.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin asked me to convey through you his warmest regards to President of Bolivia Luis Arce and to express his readiness to further deepen our collaboration.

We will work jointly with you to implement these agreements, taking into account, inter alia, the meeting held in Kazan in 2024.