Lavrov spoke about the development of relations between Russia and Algeria

According to him, during his visit to Algeria, he had very good and lengthy negotiations with the President and Foreign Minister of this country.

“We emphasized that our relations for many years were based on the declaration on strategic partnership, which was signed by the presidents in 2001.

And since then, our ties have been developing quite intensively, in a truly partnership-like way, strategically in a number of areas.

This includes regular political dialogue, trade, and the economy,” Lavrov said.

The Minister stressed that trade between the countries grew by several percent last year and exceeded $3 billion, despite the consequences of the pandemic.

He noted joint investments with Algeria, joint work within the framework of OPEC +, within the framework of the Forum of Gas Exporting Countries.

According to him, the countries have very rich military-technical ties.

“Cultural, humanitarian exchange.

We came to the conclusion (and this was the initiative of the Algerian side) that our relations are reaching a new level and this should be recorded in a new document that we have begun to prepare.

And we expect that during the visit of the President (Algerian Abdelmajid.

) Tebbun to the Russian Federation, in accordance with the invitation of the President (of Russia Vladimir.

) Putin, we will sign such a new document, ”said Lavrov. 

The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry also spoke about the responsible position of the Arab countries on the situation in Ukraine.