Signing of Memorandum on Cooperation between Russian Foreign Ministry and Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (IOPS)
State Secretary, Deputy Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Grigory Karasin and Chairman
of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society and Chairman of the Audit
Chamber of the Russian Federation Sergey Stepashin signed a Memorandum
on Cooperation between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian
Federation and the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society on June 9, 2008.
IOPS was created in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century. It contributed
to the spread of Russian culture and the Russian language in the
countries of the Eastern Mediterranean and rendered assistance to
pilgrims and travelers in those countries.
The aim of the
Memorandum is to facilitate interaction by the MFA with this one of the
oldest Russian nongovernmental organizations in the interest of
developing Russia’s humanitarian, scientific and cultural relations with
the states of the region.
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