Overview
- After talks in Moscow with Foreign Minister Gedion Timotheos, Sergey Lavrov said Russia would tailor military-technical cooperation to Ethiopia’s defense needs and noted the related working group met in May.
- Lavrov said the September 25 Putin–Abiy meeting produced key documents, including on nuclear energy, with foreign ministries tasked to promote new energy projects.
- Both sides agreed to develop financial arrangements to shield trade and investment from unilateral sanctions and to convene the intergovernmental commission in the near future.
- Russian Ambassador Yevgeny Terekhin reported that bilateral trade more than doubled to $191.2 million in the first half of 2025, citing work on logistics, independent settlement mechanisms and direct company-to-company contacts.
- Terekhin reiterated that Prime Minister Abiy invited President Putin to visit Ethiopia and that Moscow accepted, while an Ethiopian delegation’s Moscow visit focused on the bilateral agenda and coordination at the UN and BRICS.