THIRD RUSSIA–AFRICA SUMMIT AND OTHER RUSSIA–AFRICA EVENTS

Organizing Committee

  • Yury Ushakov
    Aide to the President of the Russian Federation (Chairman of the Organizing Committee)

  • Anton Kobyakov
    Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation (Deputy Chairman and Executive Secretary of the Organizing Committee)

  • Irina Abramova
    Director, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

  • Denis Agafonov
    Chief, Presidential Experts’ Directorate

  • Alexander Babakov
    Deputy Chairman, State Duma of the Russian Federation

  • Georgy Borisenko
    Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

  • Dmitry Verbovoy
    Deputy Head, Administrative Directorate; Head, Main Medical Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation

  • Alexey Gruzdev
    Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

  • Tatyana Dovgalenko
    Director, Africa Partnership Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Head of the Secretariat of the Russia–Africa Partnership Forum

  • Alexey Zinovyev
    Head of Department, Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation

  • Konstantin Ivanov
    Deputy Head, Protocol Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation

  • Fillip Ilyichev
    Deputy Head, Foreign Policy Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation

  • Vladimir Ilyichev
    Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

  • Sergei Katyrin
    President, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation

  • Oleg Klimentyev
    First Deputy Director, Federal Guard Service of the Russian Federation

  • Konstantin Kosachev
    Deputy Speaker, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

  • Igor Kostyukov
    Director, Main Directorate of the General Staff; Deputy Chief, General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

  • Andrey Kurnosenko
    First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation

  • Roman Kurynin
    Deputy Minister for Civil Defence, Emergencies, and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters of the Russian Federation

  • Nikolay Lapkovsky
    Aide to Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak

  • Igor Levitin
    Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, Special Presidential Representative for International Cooperation in Transport

  • Olga Lyakina
    Deputy Head, Administrative Directorate of the Russian Federation

  • Andrey Malyshev
    Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation

  • Veronika Nikishina
    General Director, Russian Export Centre

  • Vasily Osmakov
    Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation

  • Konstantin Pashkov
    First Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation

  • Viktor Podkolzin
    Director, Main Directorate for the Protection of Public Order, Federal Service of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation

  • Anna Popova
    Head, Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor)

  • Oleg Salagay
    State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation

  • Alexander Stuglev
    CEO, Roscongress Foundation

  • Elmir Tagirov
    Deputy Chief of Staff of the Government of the Russian Federation

  • Maxim Turansky
    Director, Department for Interaction with Foreign Intelligence Services, Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation

  • Andrei Tsybulin
    Chief, Presidential Press and Information Office

  • Ivan Chebeskov
    Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation

  • Sergey Cheryomin
    Minister of the Moscow Government; Head, Department of Foreign Economic and International Relations of the City of Moscow

  • Bella Cherkesova
    Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications, and Mass Media of the Russian Federation

  • Alexander Shokhin
    President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

  • Dmitry Yadrov
    Head, Russian Federal Air Transport Agency

“We highly value the results of our joint work at the summit. I am sure the achieved results are creating a good foundation for further deepening the Russia-Africa partnership in the interests of our nations’ prosperity and wellbeing.”

President of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Putin

The Russia–Africa Summit, which is taking place in Sochi on 23–24 October 2019, encapsulates the historically friendly relations between the African continent and the Russian Federation. This Summit carries great significance as it is the first of its kind to emerge during a period of major global and international transformations. In response to the aspirations of the people it is representing, the Summit intends to build a comprehensive framework for expanding Russian–African relations into broader horizons of joint cooperation across different fields.

The African nations and Russia share a common understanding of international relations, based on the principles of respect for the rule of international law, equality, non-interference in the internal affairs of states, and the peaceful resolution of disputes. Both sides affirm their commitment to support multilateral actions to oppose new international threats, be they terrorism and extremism in all their forms, or declining growth rates. The two sides share a firm conviction regarding the importance of developing trade flows and supporting mutual investment in such a way as to ensure security, peace and development for the African and Russian people.

African countries have huge potential and opportunities that will allow them, once efforts to streamline their economies have been achieved, to emerge as real global players. In recent years, the nations of this continent have achieved major successes spanning the political, economic, social and administrative spheres. Africa has flourished in terms of growth over the past decade, reaching a continent-wide growth rate of 3.55% in 2018.

The African Union Summit, which was held in Niger in July 2019, continued the efforts of the African countries and saw the African Continental Free Trade Agreement come into force, along with its operational instruments. The agreement is one of the key objectives of Agenda 2063, an African development strategy that has been created to address the African people’s desire for prosperity and decent living standards.

These successes are opening up wide-ranging prospects for cooperation between African countries and the Russian Federation, and confirm the determination of African governments and their people to cooperate with multiple partners in order to establish mutually beneficial relations.

With this in mind, we express our hopes that the Russia–Africa Summit will help in the establishment of constructive strategic relations, based on partnership between two sides across various fields, and in the service of fulfilling the hopes and aspirations of the African people and their friends in Russia.

President of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Abdelfattah ALSISI