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Russian upper house speaker arrives in Ethiopia for official visit

The Russian delegation was welcomed at Bole International Airport by Russian Ambassador to Ethiopia Yevgeny Terekhina and speaker of Ethiopia’s upper parliament house Agegnehu Teshager

ADDIS ABABA, February 18. /TASS/. A delegation of Russia’s Federation Council, or upper house of parliament, led by its speaker Valentina Matviyenko has arrived in the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Ababa for an official visit.

The Russian delegation was welcomed at Bole International Airport by Russian Ambassador to Ethiopia Yevgeny Terekhina and speaker of Ethiopia’s upper parliament house, the House of Federation, Agegnehu Teshager.

"We are set to continue parliamentary cooperation. The leaders of our countries stay in touch, maintaining a trust-based, meaningful dialogue. They have outlined the agenda of Russian-Ethiopian relations for the short-term perspective. I think that we, lawmakers, must create conditions to ensure the implementation of all our agreements," Matviyenko said as quoted by the Federation Council’s press service.

According to the press service, along with lawmakers, the Russian delegation includes representatives from 14 ministries, agencies, big companies, and research organizations.

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