ST. PETERSBURG, July 28. /TASS/. Russia has held international information security talks with almost all African countries, Artur Lyukmanov, director of the International Information Security Department at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told TASS on the sidelines of the second Russia-Africa summit.
"We have held contacts with almost all African countries, sometimes communicating on the sidelines, sometimes in brief meetings. There was an important event yesterday: Minister [of Foreign Affairs] Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov signed an agreement with the Minister of Digital Communications of Zimbabwe - an intergovernmental agreement on international information security," said the official, who is also a Russian special presidential envoy for international cooperation in the field of information security.
The second Russia-Africa summit is taking place at St. Petersburg’s Expoforum convention center from July 27-28. An economic and humanitarian forum is running in parallel to the event. Like the previous summit, the upcoming one will be held under the motto For Peace, Security and Development. The Roscongress Foundation is the summit’s organizer while TASS is the summit’s photo hosting agency and media partner. TASS is also holding the second Russia-Africa Media Forum.