EMERGING-BRICS/GHANI ARRIVAL Afghan President Ghani arrives in Russia for BRICS summit

Record ID: 147803

  • Title: EMERGING-BRICS/GHANI ARRIVAL Afghan President Ghani arrives in Russia for BRICS summit
  • Date: 9th July 2015
  • Summary: UFA, RUSSIA (JULY 9, 2015) (RUSSIAN POOL) AFGHAN PRESIDENT ASHRAF GHANI'S PLANE ON TARMAC, RUSSIAN AND AFGHAN FLAGS ON FOREGROUND GHANI'S PLANE ON TARMAC PEOPLE IN RUSSIAN FOLK DRESS APPROACHING PLANE ON TARMAC FOR TRADITIONAL RUSSIAN GREETING OF BREAD AND SALT VARIOUS OF GHANI EXITING PLANE, WALKING DOWN AIR STAIRS CROWD NEAR GHANI'S PLANE VARIOUS OF GHANI TALKING TO OFFI
  • Embargoed: 24th July 2015 13:00
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  • Story Text: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani arrived in Russia on Thursday (July 9) to take part in the BRICS summit as an invited guest.
    His plane touched down in the remote Russian city of Ufa, originally a fortress built on the orders of Tsar Ivan the Terrible nearly 1,170 kilometres (730 miles) southeast of Moscow, where the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa started a two-day summit on Wednesday (July 8). They will be joined by invited guests including Ghani, Iran's Hassan Rouhani and Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif, later on Thursday.
    Ghani will also stay for the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Ufa on Friday (July 10). Afghanistan is an observer state.
    Ghani will also meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday (July 10).
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