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TEHRAN, May 24 - Vladimir Putin told the leader of the war-torn Central African Republic on Wednesday he wanted to ramp up cooperation with the resource-rich country as the Kremlin seeks to regain influence on the continent.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - "We will be pleased to consider various ways to intensify our relations, first and foremost in economic and humanitarian spheres," Putin told Central African Republic's President Faustin-Archange Touadera in Saint Petersburg.
Touadera thanked Putin for Moscow's help during "a difficult humanitarian situation" and "in the process of the country's consolidation and reconciliation".
"Our country right now is among the least developed but we have huge potential," he said in comments translated into Russian and released by the Kremlin.
"We have great expectations when it comes to possible future exchanges both in the economic and humanitarian spheres," said Touadera who will also attend an economic forum in Saint Petersburg this week.
Both Putin and Touadera praised the two countries' ties in the Soviet era.
Source: AFP
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