THIRD RUSSIA–AFRICA SUMMIT AND OTHER RUSSIA–AFRICA EVENTS

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Vladimir Putin sends welcome message to participants of Second Ministerial Conference of the Russia–Africa Partnership Forum

President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin sent a welcome message to the participants of the Second Ministerial Conference of the Russia–Africa Partnership Forum held in Cairo on 19–20 December. In the message, the Russian head of state emphasized the symbolic significance of the event being held in Egypt, the country that co-chaired the first Russia–Africa Summit.

Vladimir Putin noted that African countries possess enormous economic and human potential and are playing an increasingly significant role in global politics: “The continent is rapidly establishing itself as one of the most important centres of the emerging multipolar world order,” he said.

He added that the Russian Federation attaches great importance to developing friendly, fully equal, and mutually beneficial relations with its African partners. “It is important that we have stepped up constructive cooperation in many areas in recent years. Our country provides support to African countries to ensure national security, tackle food shortages, fight terrorism and extremism, overcome the consequences of natural disasters, and counter dangerous epidemics,” the Russian President noted.

Vladimir Putin also stressed that the ministerial conference would include a thorough review of the implementation of the Russia–Africa Partnership Forum Action Plan for 2023–2026, and that participants would work to identify new, promising areas of joint action – primarily in the financial, trade, and investment sectors, where significant untapped potential remains.

The President of the Russian Federation expressed his confidence that the discussions at the conference would be meaningful and fruitful, and would pave the way for the preparations for the next Russia–Africa Summit to be finalized with a firm set of specific proposals and initiatives.

Source: kremlin.ru/ .

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“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