Speech of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov during joint press conferences following the results of negotiations with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and cooperation of Mozambique Pashek Zh., Maputo

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    Uvazhayemy Mr. the Minister,

    Dear colleagues,

    Ladies and gentlemen,

    First of all would like to thank our Mozambiquean owners for the invitation and for the fine organization of our work.

    of the Relation between our countries the friendly. They were formed in the years of anti-colonial fight and gained strong, steady character already during formation of statehood Mozambique and ensuring social and economic developments the countries under the direction of party Release front Mozambique.

    We with appreciation noted readiness President of Republic Mozambique Nyusi F. to hold today negotiations with our delegation. In Ministry foreign affairs of Republic Mozambique we discussed key questions which demand the decision soon.

    the Main task, certainly, to make

    so that our trade and economic and investment cooperation came to level of political dialogue. Here already there are first results. The agreement on creation of the Intergovernmental commission on the economic and scientific and technical cooperation which first meeting will take place next month to Maputo is reached.

    Long and very successful experience of our interaction is positively estimated by both parties. In the sphere of military and technical cooperation we noted that the decision on creation of the working group on VTS which for the first time met last year, also promotes development interactions in this important area.

    communications in the field of educations which also have a rich and old story Develop. Some hundred Mozambiquean citizens are trained in the Russian higher education institutions on civil specialties, and also in educational institutions of the Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

    communications between parliaments, political parties Develop. Quite recently at the next congress Release front Mozambique were present delegates from CPRF Uniform Russia and <1> parties .

    we pay Special attention to youth exchanges. We are grateful to our Mozambiquean friends for the direction of representative delegation on taken place in the fall of last year to Sochi the World festival of youth and students.

    U us very close interaction on the international perspective, including in United Nations, and also within cooperation Russian Federation with African Union, Community of developments the South of Africa and other structures which work at the African continent which participant including is and Mozambique.

    We, as well as our Mozambiquean friends, consider association of efforts on fight against terrorism by an absolute priority of the international community. It is necessary to make it on the general and strong fundamentals of international law, without any double standards and attempts of use of extremists in the mercenary geopolitical purposes. Such initiative was taken on one of the last sessions UNGA  by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. It still fully keeps the relevance, including taking into account accruing terrorist threat. Despite a certain progress in fight against this evil, it continues to deliver a huge number of problems to many countries and regions.

    We discussed a situation in Near East and the North of Africa, in particular, round the Syrian settlement. Russian Federation as the permanent member UN Security Council and the participant of the Astana process actively is engaged in assistance on overcoming of the Syrian crisis. We also made the contribution to common efforts on implementation of the resolution 2254 UN Security Council, having carried out with the Iranian and Turkish colleagues the Congress of the Syrian national dialogue in January of this year to Sochi.

    We confirmed with

    full support by Russian Federation efforts of the African countries on fight against terrorist threat in their territory, especially in the Sakharo-Sakhelsky region where terrorists began actively to try to dictate the conditions after invasion into Lybia took place, and this country turned into the chaos territory.

    We will be and to cooperate further with our Mozambiquean friends in all listed formats, strengthening as well bilateral dialogue in all directions of our interaction.

    in summary I invited the Minister of Foreign Affairs and cooperation of Mozambique Pashek Zh. to visit Russian Federation with official visit.

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    Sergey Lavrov
    Last position: Minister (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation)
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    Vladimir Putin
    Last position: President of the Russian Federation (President of the Russian Federation)
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    Nyusi F.
    Pashek Zh.