MOSCOW, November 27. /TASS/. The Russian State Duma ratified the agreement between the governments of Russia and Algeria on cooperation in peaceful space exploration.

The document was signed on June 15, 2023, in Moscow, and introduced to the Russian State Duma on October 19, 2024. The agreement was signed to create an organizational and legal framework for establishing mutually beneficial cooperation between Russia and Algeria in joint peaceful space exploration, the accompanying memo says.

"The agreement was prepared […] due to the stable trend in the expansion of cooperation between the Russian Federation and the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria in space exploration, in areas such as satellite navigation, space communication, satellite TV and radio broadcasting, the use of related technologies and services, training and further education of specialists in the interests of Algeria, space science and outer space exploration, astrophysical research and planetary research, remote Earth probing, space materials studies, space medicine and biology, space geodesy and meteorology, provision of spacecraft launch services, and manned space flights," the document states.

The agreement includes clauses on the protection of intellectual property created or relayed within such cooperation, on the legal and physical protection of property present on the other state’s territory under this cooperation, and it also defines the customs control procedures.