On November 13-14, the Primakov Center delegation visited Cairo on a working visit, where they participated in the roundtable "Russia and Egypt in BRICS+: Key Challenges and Prospects" at the Al-Hiwar Center for Political and Media Studies.
The event opened with welcoming speeches from Major General Hamdi Labib, Chairman of the "Al-Hiwar" Fund, and Ruslan Mamedov, PhD, the scientific director of the Primakov Center.
The discussion covered a wide range of topics, including:
The current state of relations between Russia and Egypt;
Prospects for scientific and technical cooperation between Moscow and Cairo;
The role of BRICS in the global economy;
Ways to reduce dependence on the dollar in international trade;
Strategic directions for the development of BRICS in the future.
Experts from both countries expressed the need for deeper scientific and technical collaboration and the importance of joint research projects, which could form the basis for strategic partnership within BRICS and beyond.