Cairo [Egypt], March 20: The President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, received today the Russian delegation led by the special representative of the Russian President Vladimir Putin for the Middle East.
Mikhail Bogdanov, also the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, was accompanied by the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, according to a statement from the Egyptian President's office.
The two sides "reaffirmed their mutual commitment to strengthening their relations", especially in the field of economy and industry, alluding to the first nuclear power plant in Egypt that Russia's Rosatom has been building for several months.
On March 9, Sisi and Putin spoke by phone to prepare a meeting of the "bilateral intergovernmental commission in Cairo," the Kremlin said.
Most of the Arab countries, which depend on Russian grain or weapons, have so far not taken a position on the conflict in Ukraine, in the desire to spare Moscow, without "burdening" the USA, which is on the Ukrainian side.
Egypt, the world's largest importer of wheat mainly from Russia and Ukraine, is particularly inclined to preserve relations with Moscow.
The head of American diplomacy, Anthony Blinken, who was in Cairo at the end of January, recalled that Egypt voted in the UN "to condemn the Russian invasion and reject Moscow's attempt to illegally annex parts of Ukraine."
Source: Beta News Agency