Lieutenant General Saïd Chanegriha, Chief of Staff of Algeria’s People’s National Army (ANP), received on Friday, at the headquarters of the ANP General Staff, the Director of the Federal Service for military and technical cooperation of the Russian Federation, Dimitri Shugaev, says a statement from the Algerian Ministry of National Defense.
“The General of the Army Saïd Chanegriha, Chief of Staff of the People’s National Army, received in audience, today morning, March 25, 2022, at the headquarters of the Army General Staff National People’s Army, Mr. Dimitrii Shugaev, Director of the Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation of the Russian Federation, in the presence of General Officers of the General Staff of the National People’s Army and the Ministry of National Defense, Mr. Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Algeria as well as the members of the Russian delegation”, specifies the statement.
“This meeting comes at the end of the visit of the Russian delegation to Algeria from March 23 to 25, 2022, to take part in the work of the ordinary meeting of the Algerian-Russian Intergovernmental Committee, which was held yesterday (Thursday), March 24, 2022, at the National Circle of the Army in the 1st Military Region”, notes the press release.
During this meeting, the two parties held discussions on “the state of military cooperation between the two countries and exchanged analyzes and points of view on issues of common interest.”
According to the 2022 program of the Federal Service for military and technical cooperation of the Russian Federation, joint operations are also scheduled with Egypt, Pakistan, and Kazakhstan.
In October 2021, Algeria had already taken part in a military exercise in Tarskoye near the Georgian border, where 200 Russians and Algerians tested new anti-terrorist equipment and techniques.
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