26/08/2025
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🗓 Today marks 82 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between our country and Egypt.
🇷🇺🇪🇬 Russian-Egyptian relations have traditionally been friendly. In the spirit of the bilateral Comprehensive Partnership and Strategic Cooperation Agreement, which entered into force in January 2021, our two countries continue to steadily strengthen collaboration in political, trade, economic, cultural and other spheres.
🤝 Moscow and Cairo maintain regular contacts at the highest level. On October 22, 2024, President of Russia Vladimir Putin met with President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Kazan. In May 2025, the Egyptian Leader attended the Victory Parade in Moscow.
On June 10, 2024, on the sidelines of the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry. On September 16, 2024, Sergey Lavrov met with his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty, who was in Moscow on a working visit.
Russia and Egypt remain committed to strengthening their coordination within the UN and other multilateral platforms. Egypt’s accession to BRICS on January 1, 2024 has given new momentum to the development of our cooperation.
📈 Egypt is Russia’s largest trade and economic partner on the African continent. In 2024, bilateral trade surpassed $9 billion.
An important element of our bilateral cooperation is the Russian-Egyptian Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation (IGC). The 15th IGC meeting was convened in May 2025, co-chaired by Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Anton Alikhanov and Egyptian Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade Hassan El Khatib.
Our bilateral collaboration includes a number of large-scale joint projects, the most significant of which is the construction of the El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant by the Rosatom State Corporation. Under the contract, Rosatom will not only build Egypt’s first NPP but also supply Russian nuclear fuel for the entire lifecycle of the plant and provide personnel training. Construction commenced in July 2022.
One of the key areas of interaction remains the tourism sector. Approximately 1.6 million Russian citizens visited Egypt in the past year.
🎉 We warmly congratulate our Egyptian colleagues and friends on this shared anniversary! We reaffirm our commitment to continuing to develop all aspects of our bilateral relations.
