By Prensa Latina
Moscow : Energy and technical-military collaboration mark the official 48-hour visit of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to Russia, sources from the Kremlin said Monday.
Advisors from the Algerian government confirmed that Bouteflika is in the Russian capital at the invitation of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, with whom he will talk Tuesday.
Both presidents met in March 2006 during Putin’s trip to North Africa, which concluded with signing several strategic cooperation agreements for more than seven billion dollars.
Putin said then that Algeria was the first Arab country in the world with which Russia signed a strategic accord, but bilateral relations began several decades earlier.
The total sum of the projected armament sale to Algeria would be about 4 billion dollars, according to Russian news agency ITAR-TASS.
Other possible cooperation items include construction of machinery, energy projects, transport and infrastructure projects, as well as agreements in financial matters.