{"id":9814,"date":"2023-11-08T14:45:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T14:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=9814"},"modified":"2023-11-08T14:45:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T14:45:09","slug":"burkina-faso-russia-discuss-military-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/9814\/burkina-faso-russia-discuss-military-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso, Russia discuss military cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Minister of Defense and Veteran Affairs of Burkina Faso Kassoum Coulibaly was in Moscow Tuesday (Nov. 07).<\/p>\n

He met with the Defence minister of the Russian federation, and they agreed to strengthen defence ties.<\/p>\n

Burkina’s military rulers have been looking to diversify the country’s international allies.<\/p>\n

“Russian-Burkinab\u00e9 relations are based solely on the principles of mutual respect and consideration of each other\u2019s interests, and in recent years they have acquired positive dynamics,” Russia’s Sergey\u00a0Shoigu said.<\/p>\n

“I consider today\u2019s meeting to be another step in the development of our friendly relations.”<\/p>\n

Burkinabe Kassoum Coulibaly hailed undergoing negotiations with Rusia and called them “a real practical phase”.<\/p>\n

On October 5 Coulibaly hosted Russia’s vice-minister of Defense\u00a0Iounous-Bek Evkourov in Ouagadougou.<\/a>\u00a0Both men held what Burkina Faso presidency called “working meetings and experience-sharing between ministers on the one hand, and specific officials from the General Staffs of the Armies of the two countries on the other, with the aim of strengthening the skills and capabilities of the National Armed Forces.”<\/p>\n

They also touched on cooperation in the “in the operational, economic, logistical, technological and training fields”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Minister of Defense and Veteran Affairs of Burkina Faso Kassoum Coulibaly was in Moscow Tuesday (Nov. 07). He met with the Defence minister of the Russian federation, and they agreed to strengthen defence ties. Burkina’s military rulers have been looking to diversify the country’s international allies. “Russian-Burkinab\u00e9 relations are based solely on the principles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"AFP + EBU","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"0","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"0","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1129,27],"tags":[208,373],"class_list":["post-9814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-west-africa","tag-burkina-faso","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}