Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki on Friday received Russian president's special envoy to the Middle East and North Africa Mikhail Bogdanov in the capital of Asmara for talks on a broad range of issues, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 19th October, 2018) Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki on Friday received Russian president's special envoy to the middle East and North Africa Mikhail Bogdanov in the capital of Asmara for talks on a broad range of issues, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
"They discussed a range of issues related to promoting a mutually beneficial trade, economic and humanitarian Russian-Eritrean cooperation, focusing on ways of advancing promising joint projects pertaining to extraction of mineral resources, finances, education," the ministry said.
It was agreed that the two countries would deepen their political dialogue on global issues and work together on tearing down barriers to dialogue between Eritrea and its neighbors in the Horn of Africa.
The Red Sea nation in eastern Africa broke away from Ethiopia after a UN-overseen independence referendum in 1993, but the bloody struggle over disputed land continued until 2000, killing around 80,000 people. A peace accord was signed last month in the Saudi city of Jeddah.
