The President goes to Egypt at the invitation of five years ago

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday for the first time goes on a four -day tour of the Middle East. Putin will start the Middle Eastern tour with Egypt, where it will be on April 26-27. Then the President of the Russian Federation will come to Israel ( April 27-28 ), and on April 29 - to the Palestinian territories.

Putin will arrive in Cairo in the afternoon of April 26. On the same day, in the Royal Palace, Abdin Putin will meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a brief conversation between two leaders is planned. On Tuesday, the president of Egypt will give a lunch in honor of the tall Russian guest. Putin will stop at Cairo at the Seraton Royal Gardens Hotel.

The program on April 27 will begin in the morning with the official ceremony of the meeting of the presidents of Egypt and the Russian Federation. "Then there will be a conversation in a narrow composition, Russian -Egyptian negotiations in a wide composition, the signing of a document," Prikhodko said.

The Kremlin spokesman clarified that one document is planned for signing - a joint declaration, which is now "in the approval stage." According to Prikhodko, this document is "political, we are talking about cooperation." About the results of negotiations, the leaders of Russia and Egypt intend to tell reporters at about noon at a press conference.

In the afternoon, Putin will be at the headquarters of the League of the Arab states, will talk with the General Secretary of this organization Amrom Musa. Then the President of the Russian Federation will have lunch with the chairman of the People’s Assembly (parliament) of Egypt, the President of the Friendship Society of Russia-Egypt Ahmed Fathi Surur.

In the evening, on Wednesday, Putin is going to Giza near Cairo. "It is sinful not to use the stay in Egypt to combine the useful with the pleasant, so allegedly after the negotiations we will go see the pyramids," Prikhodko said. On the same day, departure from Cairo to Israel is planned.

During a visit to Egypt, Putin will be accompanied by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Presidential Assistant Sergei Prikhodko, head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Yevgeny Primakov, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee Mikhail Margelov, Chairman of Vnesheconombank Vladimir Dmitriev, Head of the Federal Agency for Industry, Anatoly Perminov, Head of Roscosmos, Head Rosatoma Alexander Rumyantsev, General Director of MiG Alexei Fedorov, head of Rosoboronexport Sergey Cheizov.

The visit to Egypt will be the first for Vladimir Putin, and this two -day working visit in the Kremlin is called "long -awaited", since Putin received the invitation in 2000. "This is the first visit to Egypt in the highest level in the highest level, and what is especially important - this is the first visit of the Russian president to the Arab world," said Sergey Prikhodko.

The route of the Middle Eastern trip of the Russian president, following geopolitical logic, coincides with the routes of trips of American presidents, the Independent Gazeta notes. It is no accident that the Western media in this regard spoke of the revival of Moscow’s activity in the region. The interests of geopolitics "take into account not only the status of the Cosponsor of the peaceful settlement, but also the fact that Russia is included in the sphere of activity of Islamist terrorist groups operating in the international arena, and is also the main competitor of Middle Eastern oil and gas exporters in the western markets and Western weapons manufacturers in the regional markets."

However, in the oil sector, the parties clearly want to move from competition to cooperation. As presidential assistant Sergei Prikhodko told reporters, "the list of topics of negotiations is wide - this is economics, trade, energy, space and military -technical cooperation." The Egyptian Minister of Egypt himself spoke much more specifically. According to MIGNews , in an interview with the local newspaper Al-Ahram, the Minister of Oil emphasized that Egypt and Russia are moving from agreements and contracts to the search and drilling of oil and gas to the creation of large enterprises for the production of oil and gas equipment and the use of technologies. According to him, the Russian company "Lukoil" will begin drilling wells on the sea shelf to the north and the east of the Suez Gulf in an area of ​​175 square meters. km, where five promising oil and gas fields are located.

It is unlikely that negotiations in Israel, which imports 80% of raw oil from Russia, will be able to do without an oil topic.

Even after the first elections for the highest state post in 2000, Putin received an invitation to visit Cairo, but still could not use it. The invitation was confirmed several times, in particular, during visits to Moscow, President Egypt Hosni Mubarak.

In December last year, at a press conference, the President of the Russian Federation said that he agreed to visit Egypt. "Thank you for the invitation, I am ready to do this at a time when it will be clear that the situation is moving from a dead point and is in a positive direction," Putin said.

However, the Russian leader categorically refuses to relax in Egypt. "President Hosni Mubarak invited me both to Hurghada and the Sharm Esh-shih, but so far I am acting and are the president of Russia, I believe that I should spend a vacation in my own country," Putin explained. At the same time, in the book “From the First Person” in 2000, the president said that he “wants to watch Egypt”.

Presidential Assistant Sergei Prikhodko told ITAR-TASS that the Kremlin had long planned the president’s trip to the Middle East, but the situation did not allow. “We were going to visit there for a long time, but the situation in the Middle East - such an explosive, was a very intense painful phase, the situation did not allow a full -format visit with a visit to Israel,” the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation explained.

Prikhodko emphasized that now the situation in the Middle East allows Putin to be there. "We believe, the current situation for the better differs from the one that was in previous years. There is a serious chance to strengthen the peace process. The Palestinian leadership is determined to do this, the Israelis are taking steps, and, of course, this affects the situation in the region as a whole, not to mention Iraq," Poddkoko said.

At the same time, the presidential assistant admitted that during the visit "to the security service, the load will fall at least standard." “They have enough work (the protection of the Russian leader) there,” Prikhodko believes.

On the eve of the visit to Egypt, Putin, in an interview with the Egyptian newspaper, Al-Ahram that the Palestinian people have the right to create an independent state. "We have always said and are now talking about the fact that the Palestinian people have the right to create an independent, independent state," the Russian President said.

In his opinion, in order for such a decision not only to take place, it was not just announced, but that such a decision and such a state be viable, you need to be able to negotiate. “You need to be able to compromise,” Putin added. At the same time, the Russian president believes that the participants of this long -term conflict have such a chance, RIA Novosti reports.

Answering the question of whether Russia will be the role of Russia in the Palestinian -Israeli direction more active in the near future, Putin said: "It will be as active as it will be in demand by the participants in this process, primarily by the participants in the conflict themselves."