Russian Embassy to Open in Equatorial Guinea in Coming Day, Foreign Ministry Says
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - In late December 2023, Russia reopened its embassy in Burkina Faso after 31 years of absence. Russia's diplomatic presence in Africa was disrupted in the early 1990s due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Russia will open its embassy in Equatorial Guinea in the coming days as part of a big diplomatic comeback to the African continent, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department of Africa, Vsevolod Tkachenko, said on Wednesday.
"We have already opened our embassy in Burkina Faso not so long ago. In the coming weeks, our diplomatic mission in Equatorial Guinea will start its work. A couple of other our diplomatic 'spots' are in line, which will enable us to be closer to the practical concerns and needs of our African partners," Tkachenko said at a forum in Moscow.
The Russian diplomat said Russia and Africa are important to one another's future.
"One of the signs of this are the constant requests of many of our African partners to restore a diplomatic presence in those countries where, for one or another reason, it was suspended," Tkachenko said.
