On April 11, at the Kremlin, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin received the credentials from ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Steve Davies Ugbah, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Amjad Odeh Adaileh, the Republic of Ghana Lesley Akyaa Opoku Ware, the Republic of Korea Woo Yoon-keun, the Arab Republic of Egypt Ihab Ahmed Talaat Nasr, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Raed bin Khaled Qrimli, the Republic of The Gambia Jainaba Bah, the Republic of Austria Johannes Eigner, the United Arab Emirates Maadhad Hareb Al Khaili, El Salvador Efren Arnoldo Bernal Chevez, the Republic of the Congo David Maduka, the Republic of Cuba Gerardo Penalver Portal, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Ngo Duc Manh, Montenegro Ramiz Basic, the Republic of Italy Pasquale Terracciano, the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire Roger Gnango and the Republic of Benin Noukpo Clement Kiki.

The ceremony was attended by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov.