From November 9th -11th the Hon. Minister of Agriculture of
the Russian Federation, Co-Chairman of the Intergovernmental Russian-Nigerian
Joint Commission on Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation, Mr.
Alexander Tkachev led the Russian Government delegation and represented the
President of the Russian Federation to the Russia - Nigeria Bilateral
Commission to Nigeria - the first one in 6 years
During his visit to Nigeria, Mr. Alexander Tkachev,
accompanied by the Deputy Minister for Agriculture of Russia, Mr. Gromyko
(grandson of Andrey Gromyko), and H.E. the Ambassador Plenipotentiary and
Extraordinary of the Russian Federation, Mr. Nikolai Udovichenko held meetings
with the Vice-President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Honourable Minister of
Agriculture and Rural Development of Nigeria, Mr. Audu Ogbeh, top officials of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ECOWAS Commission His Excellency Edo state
Governor Mr. Godwin Obaseki, the Managing Director of Afrinvest Mr. Ike Chioke,
Executive Vice Chairman of GeoQinetiq - Jerome Okolo as well as other prominent
Nigerian businessmen.
In the course of the meetings they discussed issues of
bilateral trade and investment cooperation, including increasing supplies of
Russian agricultural production to Nigeria and ECOWAS region. Special attention
was drawn to the measures for providing resumption of aluminium production at
the Alscon plant owned by the Russian company «Rusal».
The Russian and Nigerian Government representatives
discussed key spheres of bilateral cooperation, including agriculture,
industry, power sector, military-technical cooperation, mining and solid
minerals. Following the outcomes of the session, the parties signed bilateral
protocol, which reflects specific measures for stimulating economic partnership
between Russia and Nigeria.
In particular, the Russian side expressed its readiness to
participate in the efforts to revive Ajaokuta steel plant, to support large
scale Russian investments aimed at increasing the supplies of food products and
stimulating agricultural production in Nigeria, to bringing forward plans to
establish assembly plants to produce agricultural and transport-related
machinery.
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