Addis Ababa, December 18, 2019 (FBC) -The 10th meeting of the Ethiopian-Russian working group on military and technical cooperation is taking place in Moscow as of Tuesday December 17, 2019.
The meeting is aimed at scaling up the military and technical cooperation between Ethiopia and Russia.
Head of the Ethiopian Delegation, State Minister of Defense Ambassador Lela-Alem Gebreyohannes and Head of the Russian Delegation Anatoliy Punchuk, Deputy Director of Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) co-chaired the meeting.
In her opening remarks, Ambassador Lela-Alem appreciated the longstanding military and technical cooperation between the two countries.
She also expressed her country’s interest to further strengthen relations with Russia, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Commending the deep-seated relations between the two countries, Anatoliy Punchuk called for further actions to take the relationship to a higher level.