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Covid-19: Russian minister, business delegation postpone visit to Mozambique
2:36 CAT | 12 Jun 2020
Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov. [Photo: Yekaterina Shtukina//Russian Government Press Office//TASS]
A working visit to Mozambique by Russia’s Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov has been postponed to a date to be set because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Russian ambassador in Maputo has announced, while reaffirming ongoing interest in a number of key projects.
“Unfortunately, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, meetings of the Mixed Inter-Governmental Commission for Economic and Technical-Scientific Cooperation have been postponed,” Alexander Surikov told the Mozambican Information Agency (AIM).
Similarly, a visit by Rustam Minnikhanov, president of the Republic of Tartarstan, the sixth largest economy in the Russian Federation, has also been cancelled.
Both leaders were to travel to Mozambique accompanied by businesspeople from the manufacturing, transport and communications and equipment and machinery production sectors.
The constraints imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic are also jeopardising the progress of cooperation projects in the energy area, Ambassador Surikov admitted.
“There remains concrete interest on our part in participating in the realisation of several projects to increase energy production, both thermal and hydroelectric, and electrical transmission,” he emphasised.
The Russian ambassador said that his country was also interested in developing port and agricultural infrastructure in Mozambique.
“It is certain that, when this pandemic ends, we will carry out the visits mentioned and organise even more commercial exchanges,” he stressed.
In October, the two countries signed commitments for investment projects in various areas, as part of the participation of Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi at the Russia-Africa summit in the Russian city of Sochi.
Source: Lusa
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