“I can say with confidence that Mexico will remain the second partner in the region after Brazil in terms of trade turnover,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Coronelli recalled that in 2021 the volume of trade between Russia and Mexico reached a record $4.8 billion.

Earlier, Brazilian Ambassador to Moscow Rodrigo Baena Soares said that trade between Brazil and Russia had reached $8.8 billion since the beginning of 2022 as of November, a record high.