A Russia-Egypt treaty on comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation is set to be signed on Wednesday, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday.
GORKI (Russia) (Pakistan Point news / Sputnik - 16th October, 2018) A Russia-Egypt treaty on comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation is set to be signed on Wednesday, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday.
"Tomorrow, talks with your colleague, [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin, will take place in Sochi, and a fundamental agreement on strategic partnership will be signed," Medvedev told Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Sisi during their meeting in the Moscow Region.
Medvedev also said that the document was set to become a new stage in the development of bilateral friendly relations, adding that Egypt is Russia's key partner in the middle East and Africa.
In turn, Sisi said that Russia had always helped Egypt, including during the crisis in 2014 as well as assistance in various industrial projects in 1950s-1960s, which Cairo would never forget.
Last week, the Kremlin press service announced that Putin would meet with Sisi in Sochi on October 17 to discuss a further boost in bilateral cooperation.
