On April 12, within the framework of his working trip to Algeria, the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia M.L. Bogdanov was received by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Diaspora Abroad of IDA Ahmed Attaf.
During the conversation the main attention was paid to topical issues of further development of relations of deep strategic partnership between Russia and Algeria. A high level of political dialog and coordination between Moscow and Algeria in various multilateral formats, including the UN Security Council, OPEC Plus and the Gas Exporting Countries Forum, was noted.
In exchanging views on the current situation in the Middle East and North Africa, emphasis was placed on the settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In this context, Russia and Algeria reaffirmed their principled position in support of Palestine’s application for full membership in the UN, emphasized the importance of consolidating international efforts in the interests of an early ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, providing necessary humanitarian assistance to its population, as well as creating conditions for establishing a full-fledged negotiation process on a known international legal basis, which envisages the establishment of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
It was also agreed to continue coordinated efforts to normalize the politico-military situation in the countries of the Sahel-Saharan zone.
