Moscow hosts conference on cooperation between Russia, Asia and Africa

Russia's Foreign Ministry is hosting a conference of the Russian Committee for Solidarity and Cooperation with the Peoples of Asia and Africa in Moscow.

Deputy Chairman of the Council of Federation, a representative of the executive body of state power of Dagestan, Ilyas Umakhanov, opening the conference, noted that it is held for the first time in the format of an all-Russian public organization, the correspondent of Vestnik Kavkaza reports.

Ilyas Umakhanov then gave the floor to the deputy head of the presidential administration of Russia, Magomedsalam Magomedov, who read out a greeting from the country's President Vladimir Putin.