OREANDA-NEWS  The Crimean authorities are planning a working trip of the region's delegation to Syria in June to discuss the supply of products and attract students from an Arab country to the peninsula, Chairman of the State Council of the Republic Vladimir Konstantinov told TASS on Wednesday.

"The working trip of the Russian interdepartmental delegation to the Syrian Arab Republic is scheduled for June 2023. As part of the trip, the Crimean delegation plans to continue working with suppliers of Syrian products for their supplies to Russia. It is also planned to carry out work on attracting Syrian students to study at the V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University (KFU), on the development of previously reached agreements between KFU and the University of Latakia and on establishing links between KFU and the University of Damascus. Work will continue on the creation of a joint Crimean-Syrian shipping company," Konstantinov said.

According to him, it is assumed that the delegation will include representatives of the Council of Ministers of Crimea, the permanent Mission of Crimea to the President of the Russian Federation, KFU, the Crimean-Syrian trading house "Commonwealth", the Nikitsky Botanical Garden.

Crimea and Syria have partnership relations, in particular, in October 2018, a delegation of the Russian region under the leadership of the head of the republic Sergey Aksenov visited Damascus. The Syrian side has made reciprocal visits to Simferopol and Yalta over the years. Agreements on trade and economic cooperation and cooperation in the field of tourism have been concluded, meetings of the joint Russian-Syrian working group are being held.