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Russian, Somalian FMs Hold Joint Press Conference

Since 2016, Russia and Somalia have been negotiating to increase cooperation in politics, trade, economics and other fields, as well as to resolve the crisis within Somalia and in the Horn of Africa as a whole.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Somali counterpart Abshir Omar Jama held a press conference in Moscow after meeting to discuss a wide range of regional and global issues.
In January 2018, Russia's then-Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich met with Somalia's then Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire at the Davos Economic Forum. Later that year, Lavrov called for a strengthening of international support for Somalia and the AU mission in the country, which has been struggling against a radical islamist insurgency since the mid-2000s.
Somalia's then-President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed represented his country at the 2019 Russia–Africa Summit.