MOSCOW (Sputnik) —Shoukry stressed, though, that the A321 crash last year had not affected Egypt-Russia economic and trade ties in general.
"During the talks with [Russian Foreign Minister] Mr. Lavrov today, we acknowledged the fact that the reduction of tourist flow to Egypt harms both the Egyptian and the Russian side," Shoukry told reporters at a news conference rounding up the results of his visit to Moscow.
Russia suspended all passenger flights to and from Egypt last fall after a Russian A321 plane crashed in the Sinai desert on October 31 while flying from the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg. All 224 people on board died in what has become the largest civil aviation disaster in Russian history.
