🎙Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement at a joint press conference with Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates Badr Abdelatty following the Second Ministerial Conference of the #RussiaAfrica Partnership Forum (Cairo, December 20, 2025)
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💬Sergey Lavrov: We conducted a thorough discussion of the full Russian-African agenda. Our focus was in particular on reviewing the implementation of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum Action Plan for 2023-2026 and on identifying further steps to expand our trade, economic, and investment cooperation – a partnership that is growing rapidly and which we are committed to strengthening.
We have agreed to create conditions that facilitate concrete steps to increase mutual trade and to implement promising joint investment projects in high-tech industries, all aspects of energy and other areas, including in cultural, humanitarian and educational spheres.
All these areas of practical cooperation are detailed in the comprehensive Joint Statement, which was unanimously approved and which will serve as the central guideline for our future work.
Importantly, this document places special emphasis, within the trade and economic sphere, on establishing resilient financial, logistical, and interbank mechanisms that will safeguard our partnership from illegal unilateral sanctions – a practice our joint statement clearly defines as unacceptable.
The Joint Statement also captures the progress of our discussions on pressing international and regional issues, including those of global significance.
We decided to continue coordinating our efforts in multilateral forums. This includes advancing the reform of the UN Security Council, taking full account of the legitimate interests of African states, and reforming the Bretton Woods institutions, whose composition and practices significantly lag behind today’s global economic realities.
I would like to highlight the section of the Statement that outlines our shared fundamental approaches to key issues of international development. In particular, I note the clear position that all states must respect the principles of the UN Charter not selectively but in their entirety and interdependent integrity.
Significant attention in the Statement is devoted to strengthening the independence of our African friends, particularly in the economic sphere. To protect their right to independent development, their right to choose their own partners and foreign policy priorities, the Statement proclaims our clear support for the recent UN General Assembly resolution establishing December 14 as the annual International Day Against Colonialism in All Its Forms and Manifestations. This will serve to intensify our shared efforts at the UN to eradicate contemporary forms of colonialism and neocolonial practices.
Finally, our shared position on the urgent resolution of the Palestinian issue, in full compliance with existing UN resolutions, as my colleague detailed, is clearly enshrined in the Statement.
The Joint Statement also contains our shared decision to strengthen cooperation in politics and security. It is one of the reasons why we have recommended establishing working relations between the African Union and the CSTO.
The Forum programme offered a whole range of sideline events, including a business event involving representatives of economic and trade agencies and organisations from Russia and African countries. You certainly know that the Russian delegation had a great number of bilateral meetings – over 20 of them – with the ministers of our African partners. We benefited from useful discussions of bilateral relations and their development. In some cases, agreements and memorandums covering different areas were signed.
🇷🇺🌍«The Ethiopian Herald» has published the article by H.E. Ambassador Evgeny Terekhin "Ethiopia, Russia expanding bilateral ties, multilateral cooperation"
📍 Key points:
• The bilateral and multilateral relationships between Russia and Ethiopia have been growing after the leaders of the two countries met at the first and second #RussiaAfrica Summit in 2019 and 2023. <...> their meetings <...> have given a mighty impetus to a whole-scale development of bilateral relations in each direction, practically in every field.
🌍 BRICS will give the countries better opportunities for enlargement and strengthening of bilateral relations, <...> there is already a significant and broad range of interconnected ideas that fit together.
• Both countries share a vision of a multipolar world order based on international law and the principles enshrined in the United Nations Charter.
🧑🎓 Russia has been enlarging the quantity of scholarships allotted to Ethiopian students every year.
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🇷🇺🌍«The Ethiopian Herald» has published the article by H.E. Ambassador Evgeny Terekhin "Ethiopia, Russia expanding bilateral ties, multilateral cooperation"
📍 Key points:
• The bilateral and multilateral relationships between Russia and Ethiopia have been growing after the leaders of the two countries met at the first and second #RussiaAfrica Summit in 2019 and 2023. <...> their meetings <...> have given a mighty impetus to a whole-scale development of bilateral relations in each direction, practically in every field.
🌍 BRICS will give the countries better opportunities for enlargement and strengthening of bilateral relations, <...> there is already a significant and broad range of interconnected ideas that fit together.
• Both countries share a vision of a multipolar world order based on international law and the principles enshrined in the United Nations Charter.
🧑🎓 Russia has been enlarging the quantity of scholarships allotted to Ethiopian students every year.
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🇷🇺🇨🇬 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putinheld talks at the Kremlin with President of the Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso, who is in Russia on an official visit.
💬Vladimir Putin: Mr President, friends, I would like to welcome you to Moscow once again.
In this context, I would like to remind you that you visited our country back during the Soviet era. We have developed very warm and friendly relations with you at the interstate and personal levels.
You have made a significant personal contribution to the development of Russian-Congolese relations, attended two Russia-Africa summits and are doing a great deal to further develop our interaction in nearly all spheres. I am referring to the political sphere, and our trade and economic ties have recently been growing visibly.
We are grateful to you for our concerted efforts on the international stage.
#RussiaAfrica
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement at a reception on the occasion of Africa Day (Moscow, May 23, 2024)
💬Sergey Lavrov:#AfricaDay — a holiday which epitomises the unwavering will of the African peoples and their struggle in pursuit of freedom and human dignity.
This year, the holiday coincides with the 20th Anniversary of the African Union’s Peace and Security Council which is one of the main bodies of this pan-African organisation that plays a significant role in shaping the modern African security architecture and the political and socioeconomic integration of the continent’s countries, and ensuring its proper place within the international economic relations system.
🌍 We in Russia are pleased to note that Africa continues to gain political weight and to establish itself as a crucial pillar of the emerging multipolar order. Dynamic integration processes, rapidly growing markets, and business activity make it possible for the African states to play an increasingly meaningful role in international affairs and speak as one. <…>
Fighting the newly emerged colonial and neo-colonial practices has come to the forefront today. The Western methods have changed, but the thrust of its policy towards African countries has remained unchanged and is to bring them to its heel and to live at the expense of other countries using more sophisticated forms of exploitation as part of the rules-based order.
We remain willing, notwithstanding current circumstances, to support the African countries in their efforts to advance their sovereignty, to address pressing socioeconomic challenges, and to assert Africa’s rightful place as an equal partner in the modern world, including in the efforts to reform the UN Security Council.
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The potential for Russian-African cooperation across all areas is truly vast. We will continue to work together to bring our relations to the level of a truly strategic partnership.
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#RussiaAfrica
🌍Today, 25 May, is #AfricaDay! Our warmest wishes go to our colleagues in the diplomatic corps in Brussels! We are always happy to welcome you to our Permanent Mission to exchange views on a wide range of issues.
Russia and Africa enjoy mutually respectful and equal relations, unique historical and cultural ties, and close friendship. Our country has always supported the African continent in its struggle for decolonisation and independence. At a time when a multipolar world order is emerging, Africa's voice is becoming louder and clearer. We value the independent and sovereign position of African states in the international arena.
#RussiaAfrica
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement at a reception on the occasion of Africa Day (Moscow, May 23, 2024)
💬Sergey Lavrov:#AfricaDay — a holiday which epitomises the unwavering will of the African peoples and their struggle in pursuit of freedom and human dignity.
This year, the holiday coincides with the 20th Anniversary of the African Union’s Peace and Security Council which is one of the main bodies of this pan-African organisation that plays a significant role in shaping the modern African security architecture and the political and socioeconomic integration of the continent’s countries, and ensuring its proper place within the international economic relations system.
🌍 We in Russia are pleased to note that Africa continues to gain political weight and to establish itself as a crucial pillar of the emerging multipolar order. Dynamic integration processes, rapidly growing markets, and business activity make it possible for the African states to play an increasingly meaningful role in international affairs and speak as one. <…>
Fighting the newly emerged colonial and neo-colonial practices has come to the forefront today. The Western methods have changed, but the thrust of its policy towards African countries has remained unchanged and is to bring them to its heel and to live at the expense of other countries using more sophisticated forms of exploitation as part of the rules-based order.
We remain willing, notwithstanding current circumstances, to support the African countries in their efforts to advance their sovereignty, to address pressing socioeconomic challenges, and to assert Africa’s rightful place as an equal partner in the modern world, including in the efforts to reform the UN Security Council.
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The potential for Russian-African cooperation across all areas is truly vast. We will continue to work together to bring our relations to the level of a truly strategic partnership.
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#RussiaAfrica
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s comment for the media following his talks with President of Burkina Faso Ibrahim Traoré(Ouagadougou, June 5, 2024)
💬 President Traoré spoke about the measures his government was taking to address issues such as countering terrorism, restoring the territorial integrity of Burkina Faso, and promoting socioeconomic development. We expressed our full support for these initiatives. <...>
We reaffirmed our strong mutual commitment to continue close coordination in international affairs, above all at the United Nations.
We appreciate President Traoré’s impartial and fair stance on the events taking place in Ukraine as a result of the hybrid war unleashed by the West against the Russian Federation.
Burkina Faso is among a large group of countries that refuse to support anti-Russia initiatives promoted by the West and the Kiev regime.
We consistently and firmly support the just demands of African countries that seek to eradicate the remnants of neocolonial practices continued by the former colonial powers. <...>
☝️ The concept of the Alliance of Sahel States is based on the principle of African solutions to African problems. Africans no longer wish to receive any advice from former colonial powers.
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#RussiaAfrica#RussiaBurkinaFaso
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’sopening remarks at talks with Foreign Minister of Burkina Faso Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré (Ouagadougou, June 4, 2024)
💬Our relations are rapidly developing, largely due to the agreements reached during a meeting of our Presidents, Vladimir Putin and Captain Ibrahim Traoré, at the 2nd #RussiaAfrica Summit last year.
We are grateful for your efficient assistance in finding solutions that helped us reopen our Embassy in Ouagadougou. We are implementing a programme aimed at resuming the operation of Russian diplomatic offices in Africa. Burkina Faso was the first country where we accomplished this quickly and effectively.
🇷🇺🇧🇫 Our relations have a positive history. They are based on mutual sympathy, trust and mutual respect. We maintain active contacts at all levels. Apart from our Presidents’ meetings in St Petersburg last year, the head of Burkina Faso’s interim government, the chairman of its transitional legislative assembly, and other officials and delegations have made working visits to Russia.
Russia's State Duma has a group dedicated to interacting with Burkina Faso and other African countries. Members of the State Duma Dmitry Savelyev and Alexey Chepa, who are present here, are actively working to implement the projects of the People’s Diplomacy Centre. That NGO played a crucial role in establishing the Russian House here, which offers Russian language courses. It will continue to promote our rapprochement and the education of new government members and ministry personnel.
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#RussiaBurkinaFaso
From Pushkin to Pasternak! 📚 Writer Yulia Savikovskaya gave an amazing lecture on Russian culture. Key books & authors you NEED to know. Check it out!
#RussiaAfrica#Culture#ФорумЖурналистов
https://youtu.be/OQVZ8XAA2RE
We’re excited to announce the opening of the International Forum of Journalists “Russia-Africa: The Way of Friendship and Cooperation”! Join us for our opening teleconference TODAY, April 14th, at 3:00 PM Moscow Time (MSK) for a lively discussion and a lecture by Victoria Budanova of Sputnik Africa.
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Let’s build bridges and foster collaboration between Russian and African media! #RussiaAfrica#MediaCollaboration#Journalism#Forum#InternationalRelations