Chair of the Russian Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Viktor Bondarev said, Wednesday in Algiers, that Russia and Algeria had “similar approaches” in terms of the fight against terrorism.
In a statement to the press after the hearing granted t him by the Minister of the Interior, Local Assemblies and National Planning, Noureddine Bedoui, Mr. Bondarev, leading a Russian parliamentary delegation, said that “Algeria and Russia have very close positions and similar approaches in the fight against terrorism”.
“Transnational crime and terrorism have the same roots,” he added, affirming the need to combine efforts “to make this fight more effective”.
Earlier in the day, the Russian parliamentary delegation was received by Foreign Minister Abdelkader Messahel.
The Russian parliamentary delegation was received, Tuesday, by the Speaker of the Council of the Nation, Abdelkader Bensalah and the Speaker of People’s National Assembly, Mouad Bouchareb.