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🇷🇺🇨🇬 President of Russia Vladimir Putin met with President of the Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso

📍 Saint Petersburg, July 29, 2023

💬 President Putin: Our bilateral ties with the Republic of the Congo are strong and based on the traditions of friendship, mutual understanding and support for each other.

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Following your visit to Moscow in May 2019, we managed to give an additional boost to cooperation in the field of nuclear and hydropower, as well as hydrocarbon production. In January-April of 2023, bilateral trade increased by 85 percent, which is a good indicator.

Leading Russian companies, including LUKOIL and Yandex, operate effectively in the republic. Rosatom plans to launch a number of large projects. There is no doubt that trade and economic cooperation has significant growth potential.

Of course, we will continue training Congolese students in leading Russian universities at the expense of the state budget. In the 2023/24 academic year, the number of state scholarships for the Congo has been increased to 250 people.

Russia and the Republic of the Congo are fruitfully cooperating at the UN and other international platforms. The Congo supports most of the Russian draft resolutions, including those on combating the glorification of Nazism, no first placement of weapons in outer space, information security and others.

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