Sun 24 July 2022:
As part of efforts to end its diplomatic isolation and lift sanctions imposed by the west due to its invasion of Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is in Cairo this weekend for talks with Egyptian officials.
According to state-run Russian television station RT, Lavrov arrived in Cairo late on Saturday, beginning a trip to Africa that will also take him to Ethiopia, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
According to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Sameh Shukry, the foreign minister, spoke with Lavrov early on Sunday.
The Egyptian President Abdulfattah Al-Sisi, received today, the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, at the Federal Palace in Cairo. pic.twitter.com/nPWqUv13hG
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Later on Sunday, the chief diplomat for Russia was supposed to meet with Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the secretary general of the Arab League. According to RT, he will also address the organization’s permanent representatives.
Egypt, the Arab World’s most populous country, refused to take sides since the war in Ukraine began in February as it maintains close ties with both Moscow and the west. Egypt is among the world’s largest importers of wheat, with much of that from Russia and Ukraine.
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has cultivated a close personal rapport with Russia President Vladimir Putin. Both leaders have strengthened bilateral ties considerably in the past few years.
Lavrov’s visit to Cairo came as Russia’s state-owned atomic energy corporation, Rosatom, began last week the construction of a four-reactor power plant it is building in Egypt.
SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
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