Bahrain is counting on the creation of a "hub" for the production and distribution of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine for the Middle East and North Africa, a Bahraini government official told RIA Novosti on the eve of the visit of the country's foreign minister to Russia.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov would hold talks with Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdel Latif al-Zayani on July 2, and the sides would discuss the situation in Syria, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the situation in the Persian Gulf.
"Bahrain and Russia cooperate in many areas, including health care, and in the face of a global pandemic, the two countries have worked closely together to deploy vaccinations from the beginning. "As part of the agreement reached in June, Bahrain hopes to establish a "hub" (center - ed.) for production and distribution of Sputnik V in the Gulf, Middle East and North Africa regions," said a kingdom government official.
A Bahraini delegation announced at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in June that it intends to establish a Russian vaccine production center in the country for its distribution in the Middle East.
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Based on materials from RIA Novosti