CAIRO. March 1 (Interfax) - Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
"At the meeting with the president the strategic character of our relations, understanding of the situation in the region was reaffirmed; the focus was on the fight against a terrorist threat, which worries the governments of both countries," Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said following the meeting.
He recalled that Russia viewed Egypt as its main partner in the Middle East and Africa. "There is a very deep confidential political dialogue between our leaders - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi," Bogdanov said.
As to the combating of the terrorist threat, the parties discussed the bolstering of political and military-technical cooperation, coordination of approaches in the United Nations and other platforms, he said.
"I mean that we are facing very serious challenges and threats in the Middle East," the deputy foreign minister said, adding that "a very complicated situation in Libya was also discussed; there is a very long border (with Egypt) here.
"The interlocutors exchanged very detailed opinions on the situation in Libya, as well as, of course, in Syria, Iraq, on the Palestinian territories and great similarity and overlapping of our approaches were reasserted."
Such a commonality of opinions has been recently seen in the UN Security Council in the voting, Bogdanov said.
This is why Rogozin's visit to Egypt was very important and highlighted the special credibility of relations between the two countries, the deputy foreign minister said.
Bogdanov emphasized the importance of discussing military-technical cooperation in this format, because this concerns sensitive issues aimed at building up combat capability and effectiveness of the countering of the terrorist threat, and therefore requires data exchange and the sharing of experience as well as supplies of some or other special military hardware.