Sudan has agreed on a strategic partnership with several large Russian energy companies, Sudanese Energy Minister Mohi El-Din Naeem Mohamed told Sputnik on Tuesday.
"We were at the meeting with [Russian Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilev] and agreed that [Russian oil giant] Rosneft, the Power Engineering energy company, and other large oil producers will be our strategic partners in the Sudanese oil sector," he said.
Earlier, Sudanese Acting Deputy Foreign Minister Hussein Al-Hajj told Sputnik that the African country hopes to return to discussions with Russia on the construction of a floating nuclear power unit after the end of the intra-Sudanese conflict.