MOSCOW

Faustin-Archange Touadera, president of the Central African Republic, arrived Wednesday in Moscow on an official three-day visit, the Russian Embassy in the African nation announced in a statement.

"Russian-Central African relations are a model of cooperation based on trust, for the benefit of the peoples of both countries," the embassy said in a statement.

Touadera will hold bilateral talks with the leadership of Russia during the visit, it added.