MOSCOW, March 26. /TASS/. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin reported that in 2024 alone he had held over a hundred international negotiations, as part of developing economic cooperation with friendly countries.

"In response to external challenges, we have strengthened cooperation in the Union State (of Russia and Belarus - TASS), the Eurasian Economic Union, and the Commonwealth of Independent States. As well as through the SCO and BRICS. Last year alone, I personally held over a hundred international negotiations with our leading partners. Many of them were during working trips to friendly countries," Mishustin said when presenting his report to the State Duma, the lower house of parliament.

He noted that Russia has significantly reoriented trade to the markets of the Global South - to new centers of growth of the global economy.

"Trade and economic ties and international transport corridors that do not depend on external control are currently actively expanding in Eurasia. National currencies are increasingly being used in mutual settlements. Conditions are being created for the formation of new technological alliances," he said.