Meeting with Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed

At the beginning of the meeting, in the presence of the heads of state, Director General of Rosatom Alexei Likhachev Likhachev AlexeiDirector General of State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom and Foreign Minister of Ethiopia Gedion Timotheos exchanged the earlier signed Action Plan between the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom and the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation on the development of a nuclear power plant project in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.

On the Russian side, the talks were attended by Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak Novak AlexanderDeputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation ; Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Maxim Oreshkin Oreshkin MaximDeputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office ; Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office - Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov Peskov DmitryDeputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office, Presidential Press Secretary ; Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov Ushakov YuryAide to the President ; Minister of Healthcare Mikhail Murashko Murashko MikhailMinister of Healthcare of the Russian Federation ; Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov Siluanov AntonMinister of Finance of the Russian Federation ; Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina Nabiullina ElviraGovernor of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia) ; Director of the Federal Service for Military Technical Cooperation Dmitry Shugayev; Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko; Deputy Minister of Economic Development Vladimir Ilyichev; and Director General of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom Alexei Likhachev.

Earlier that day, Vladimir Putin, Abiy Ahmed Ahmed AbiyPrime Minister of Ethiopia , and other leaders took part in a meeting of the Global Atomic Forum.

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The beginning of Russian-Ethiopian talks

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr Prime Minister, friends, let me once again warmly welcome you to Moscow. We are genuinely pleased to see you.

Ethiopia is our long-standing reliable partner in Africa. If I am not mistaken, diplomatic relations between our countries were established in 1898.

Our relations are making steady progress, and trade is growing. The intergovernmental commission is working effectively. We have good cooperation in humanitarian areas, above all, training specialists.

Mr Prime Minister, we remain in constant contact, and we are genuinely pleased to see your representative delegation. Earlier this year, our delegation visited Ethiopia. I am aware that you had an in-person meeting with its head, and I would like to thank you for that.

Overall, our relations are gaining momentum across all areas, and we are very pleased that things are going that way.

Once again, welcome. We are very pleased to see you.

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