Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Russia back in town


Voice of Russia

Russia will set up a network of service and maintenance centers in Ethiopia for the weapons it had previously sold to the East African nation.

Addressing participants in a Russian-Ethiopian business forum in Moscow on Thursday, President Putin’s Africa ties point man, Mikhail Margelov, mentioned the close defense cooperation between the two countries, including the sale of military aircraft to Addis Ababa.

Mentioning the two nations’ shared positions on many acute problems facing the African continent, Margelov said that after a “deplorable break in ties during the 1990s”, Moscow had reassessed the importance of close ties with African countries and was now starting to actively use this potential in politics and economics.
Russia back in town

Voice of Russia

Russia will set up a network of service and maintenance centers in Ethiopia for the weapons it had previously sold to the East African nation.

Addressing participants in a Russian-Ethiopian business forum in Moscow on Thursday, President Putin’s Africa ties point man, Mikhail Margelov, mentioned the close defense cooperation between the two countries, including the sale of military aircraft to Addis Ababa.

Mentioning the two nations’ shared positions on many acute problems facing the African continent, Margelov said that after a “deplorable break in ties during the 1990s”, Moscow had reassessed the importance of close ties with African countries and was now starting to actively use this potential in politics and economics.

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