Appreciation by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for what has been described as “balanced and impartial” by Algeria, a country he is currently visiting. “We have informed our Algerian friends in detail about the progress of the special military operation of Russia together with the Donbass militias in Ukraine,” Lavrov said. “We appreciate the measured, objective and balanced position that Algeria takes in international organizations and in Ukrainian issues in general. in their foreign policy”. Lavrov then said that Russia and Algeria intend to do so Sign a document confirming the new one quality of bilateral relations. “We and Algeria are members of the Forum of gas exporting countries, Our position is closed to continue respecting the agreements, as was the case before,” Lavrov added
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Along with 34 other countries Algeria abstained from the UN vote last March condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine while on April 7 he voted against the exclusion of Moscow from the Human Rights Council. The country is the second largest gas supplier in Italy after Russia. Searched through the historic Transmed Pipeline Enrico Mattei, They arrive about every year 20 billion cubic meters of gas. To reduce Italy’s energy dependence on Russia, On April 11, the Draghi government signed an agreement with Algiers to increase deliveries by 9 billion cubic meters, two to three immediately, the rest by the end of the year. Although historically Algeria has close ties to Russia, from which it receives military supplies and training, among other things, Algeria has a solid and equally consolidated connection with Rome, also benefited by the “physical” connection of the pipeline.
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But the renewed relationship between them shows how difficult it is to unite an extended and compact front against Moscow Saudi Arabia and Russia. Yesterday the Saudi king Salman congratulated Vladimir Putin to celebrate Victory Day, when Moscow commemorates the victory over the Nazis in World War II. Relations between Washington and Riyadh, historically closely tied to the US, have deteriorated recently, and yesterday’s is just the latest from a Series of demonstrations close to Russia. First oil producer in the world along with the United States and ahead of Russia, Saudi Arabia is OPEC’s heavyweight (which also includes Algeria), the organization that brings together some of the world’s major crude oil producers and which was also extended to Moscow in the Opec+ formula. The organization does has so far resisted calls to significantly increase production of crude oil to offset the fall in Russian supplies, thereby calming prices.
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