MOSCOW, Jan 8 Eritrean President Isaias Afework may visit Petersburg for the second Russia-Africa summit in July this year, the country's ambassador to the Russian Federation, Petros Tseggai, said in an interview.
«Our delegation will arrive at the Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg. It is still difficult to say at what level it will be represented. I will do my best to convince our president to come, but it is not easy. It would be good, I really want, for him to come,» the ambassador said.
He noted that the President of the country will come if there are conditions for this, first of all, it will be calm on the border with the Ethiopian Tigray.
«Now it does not give us rest and takes a lot of time,» the diplomat added.
The first Russia-Africa summit was held in October 2019 in Sochi. The second summit is scheduled for July 2023, it will be held in St. Petersburg.
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