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Russia, Egypt to resume air travel after deadly attack

Xinhua, March 16, 2016 Adjust font size:

Russia and Egypt have agreed to resume air travel, five months after a bomb attack downed a Russian passenger plane, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday.

"We have agreed to resume air links as soon as possible while ensuring the highest safety standards for Russian citizens," Lavrov told a joint news conference with his Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shoukry.

He said Russian civil aviation services have been in contact with the Egyptian authorities on completing relevant procedures, which will allow the resumption of flights.

On Oct. 31, 2015, a Russia-bound Airbus A321 crashed shortly after taking off from Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 people aboard, mostly Russians.

The Russian federal security service announced later that the plane was brought down by a bomb. Russian President Vladimir Putin then ordered the suspension of the country's flights to Egypt.

In late February, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said the bombing was a terrorist attack.

The crash also led some other states, including Britain, to suspend their flights to Sharm el-Sheikh and to evacuate their nationals. Endi