According to a statement released by the office of the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, 15 memorandums of understanding on economic cooperation, worth $103 million, have been signed between the private sectors of the two countries in the presence of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, and Alexey Overchuk, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia.
The statement added that the memorandums cover the import of medicines, wheat, flour, and cooking oil into Afghanistan, the export of fresh fruits, particularly pomegranates, to Russia, and the expansion of bilateral trade relations.
According to the statement, under these memorandums, Afghanistan and Russia will engage in exports and imports with each other in the aforementioned and several other sectors.