A summit between President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and Russian President Vladimir Putin kicked off on Wednesday 17/10/2018.

The two leaders started their meeting with a tete-a-tete session of talks to be followed by a plenary session.

The two sides take up means of pushing up bilateral relations in the economic, industrial and tourist domains along with regional and international issues of common concern with emphasis on fighting terrorism and reaching peaceful settlements to regional crises.