On September 28, 2022, meeting of the Director of the IAfr RAS with the delegation of the Embassy of the Federative Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in Russia

On September 28, 2022, a meeting was held at the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAfr RAS), the Director of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member. RAS, Doctor of Economics, Professor Irina Olegovna Abramova with the delegation of the Embassy of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in Russia. The delegation was headed by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Alemayehu Tegenu Argau. The meeting was attended by the Minister (Department of Politics and Public Diplomacy) Gisilla Shavel Makuria and the Minister (Department of Politics and Economics) Elbetel Wosenyele Abebe.

During the meeting, issues of the conflict in the north of the country (Tigray province), as well as issues of bilateral cooperation between Russia and Ethiopia were touched upon.

Concrete proposals were made to organize a conference of Russian Ethiopian scientists on the problems of the country's development and the prospects for Russian-Ethiopian relations at the site of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences;

His Excellency Mr. Ambassador put forward an initiative to hold a videoconference of Russian and Ethiopian scientists of the natural sciences and the humanities.

His Excellency Mr. Ambassador placed special emphasis on the need to develop relations between Russia and Ethiopia, which in the current geopolitical conditions are of particular strategic importance.