Tanzanian President Calls Visit to Russia Historic
L'essentiel
- Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan described her visit to Russia as historic, noting it's been over 50 years since a Tanzanian leader last visited.
- She met with Vladimir Putin to discuss cooperation and thanked Russia for its past support in Africa's liberation.
Résumé généré par IA
MOSCOW, June 3. /TASS/. Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has described her visit to Russia as historic.
Opening a meeting with her Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, she noted that it had been more than half a century since a Tanzanian leader last visited the country.
"My visit has historical significance for me personally and for the whole country," Suluhu Hassan said. "The last [Tanzanian president] to pay a state visit [to the USSR] was Julius Kambarage Nyerere, the founding father of our state, in 1969."
She said she had come to Russia to discuss cooperation and the sustainable development of the peoples of the two countries. Also, the Tanzanian leader thanked Russia, as the successor of the USSR, for its enormous contribution to the struggle for African freedom in the 1960s.
