Russia expects high-level visits from the countries of the Middle East and Africa, said Mikhail Bogdanov, Russian President's Special Envoy for the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Foreign Minister.
"We certainly expect high-level visits from both Africa and the Middle East," Bogdanov said.
The deputy foreign minister did not specify whether the visits of representatives of the African continent would be related to their peace mission to Ukraine.
Earlier, Vsevolod Tkachenko, Director of the African Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said that the African direction is becoming one of the brightest in Russian foreign policy, as the ministry is approached by more and more representatives of Russian state and public structures, business and humanitarian spheres interested in this continent.
The diplomat also announced the ministry's work to expand Africa's aviation geography.
At the beginning of March, Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar arrived in Moscow to discuss detailed issues of the international and regional agenda with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.