💬Посол России в ЮАР Р.Е. Амбаров:

Межрегиональное сотрудничество между Россией и ЮАР является, безусловно, одной из важнейших составляющих нашего двустороннего взаимодействия. Связи между Санкт-Петербургом и провинцией Гаутенг – яркий пример того, насколько оно активно. Уверен, что этот визит будет исключительно продуктивным для обеих сторон. Посольство приложит все усилия, чтобы этот процесс динамично развивался и приносил свои плоды.

#Россия #РоссияАфрика #РоссияЮАР

🌐 Over 1,500 participants attended the First Ministerial Conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum, with 54 African countries represented, including 45 – at the level of ministers.

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the event ‘historic’ adding that #Africa is a center of the multipolar world which emerging not just on paper, but also in practical sense.

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🇷🇺🌍 During the First Ministerial Conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum, Special Presdidential Representative for the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Mr. Mikhail Bogdanov met with Deputy Chairperson for the African Union (AU) Commission Dr. Monique Nsanzabaganwa.

🤝 The parties held a comprehensive discussion on a wide range of issues on the shared agenda of #Russia and the #AU. Both sides reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening the comprehensive Russian-African partnership to promote peace, security, stability, and create conditions for sustainable development.

☝️ They also expressed mutual interest in expanding economic ties, including between the #AU and the Eurasian Economic Union (#EAEU), as well as in implementing major energy, mining, infrastructure, and other investment projects.

❗️The Russian side emphasized that, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, Russia would continue to give the highest priority and provide necessary support to African initiatives aimed at resolving conflicts on the continent, including efforts to strengthen the AU's peacekeeping capacity.

Our country also reiterated its readiness to maintain close coordination with the AU and its member states in international fora when addressing the continent's topical challenges, always in compliance with the principle "African solutions to African problems."

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🇷🇺🌍 Russia Offers Raw Materials Partnerships to Africa at #Russia-#Africa Forum

At the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum in Sochi, Alexander Kozlov, Head of Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources, announced that Russia is seeking to expand raw materials cooperation with African nations, especially in the field of subsoil use.

Kozlov highlighted Russia's vast reserves of key minerals, including gas, diamonds, nickel, cobalt, gold, platinum, and more. He noted that Russia leads the world in several resources and ranks in the top three globally for coal, oil, copper, and rare earth metals.

☝️ With strong expertise in geological exploration and resource development, Russia is well-positioned to collaborate with Africa, a continent rich in critical mineral reserves.

"Our countries have a shared history of cooperation dating back to the Soviet era, and today, there is immense potential for growth," Kozlov said. He pointed out that Russian specialists have been instrumental in helping unlock Africa’s resource potential, with ongoing projects in countries like Benin, Sudan, Djibouti, Angola, and others.

Kozlov also proposed the idea of Raw Materials Alliances, which would help regulate global markets. Additionally, he mentioned the Geological Platform project, developed in collaboration with #BRICS nations, as a framework to formalize and expand these alliances.

🤝 The potential for mutually beneficial partnerships between #Russia and #Africa is greater than ever, with both sides aiming to harness the full potential of the continent’s rich mineral resources.

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❗️The Third Committee of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly adopted the Russian-initiated draft resolution “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”, co-authored by 40 UN member-states.

✅ 116 countries voted in favour

❌ 54 against, including the US, Canada, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Moldova, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

11 abstained.

#Russia #UnitedNations #nazism #racism #xenophobia

🇷🇺🇮🇩 Russian and Indonesian Navies conduct first joint naval exercise Orruda-2024 in Java Sea

Crews of a joint ship detachment trained maneuvers and communication, employing various signal assets. Then servicemen then trained inspecting suspicious vessels, as well as blocking and mopping up a ship captured by mock terrorists.

🚢⛴ On the second day of the drills, Russian and Indonesian navies conducted training on countering unmanned boats with fire from automatic artillery installations and small arms. Deck helicopters were deployed to train joint tasks.

Video: @mod_russia

#Russia #Defence #RussianNavy

🇱🇻 Latvia pursues a policy of deliberate falsification of history, justifying former Waffen-SS legionnaires and Nazi collaborators who are honoured as participants in "national liberation movements."

❗️The building-up of a parallel historic reality is used everywhere to justify Latvia's blasphemous glorification of Latvian SS legionnaires, Nazi collaborators, and to justify the open struggle against the memory of the Red Army soldiers who liberated Latvia from Nazism.

☝️ Latvia, along with Canada, Lithuania and Estonia, is among the few countries in the world where SS criminals continue to be openly honoured, contrary to the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal, as well as numerous international acts, including the annual resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly on combating the glorification of Nazism.

📖 Read the report by the Russian Foreign Ministry regarding the situation with the glorification of Nazism and the spread of Neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance

#nazism #nazi #ww2 #racism #xenophobia

🗓 On November 9-10, Sochi hosted the First Ministerial Conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum at Sirius University.

Instituted by a decision of the Second Russia-Africa Summit in St Petersburg in July 2023, this new dialogue format is called on to become a certain coordinating mechanism for implementing objectives set by the heads of state and government.

Along with heads of foreign ministries and executive structures of integration associations, the event brought together sectoral ministers as well as representatives of parliamentary, public, academic and business circles of Russia and African countries, with over 1,500 people attended the event.

🌐 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov chaired a plenary session, the conference’s high-priority event that involved 54 heads of official delegations from African states and regional integration associations. At the beginning of the plenary session, they read out greetings from the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and Chair of the African Union – President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani.

The Ministers coordinated their positions on key issues of the international agenda as well as the Russian-African agenda, prioritising the implementation of the Action Plan of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum for 2023-2026. Also, they specified and coordinated long-term guidelines for expanding mutual collaboration still further.

📄 Four joint statements formalised common approaches towards addressing global problems and expanding cooperation with a focus on quality preparations for the Third Russia-Africa Summit:

👉 political statement,
👉 on international information security,
👉 on counter-terrorism measures,
👉 on peaceful use of outer space.

The conference’s packed business programme, including 20 panel sessions and specialised events, provided an additional impetus for diverse mutually beneficial cooperation. Experts and high-ranking guests discussed various high-priority issues in great detail, including food security and collaboration in the agro-industrial sector, training specialists for the real economy, geological prospecting, digitalisation, and cooperation in education, healthcare and youth policy. Representatives of the Eurasian Economic Commission and various African associations discussed mutual integration issues.

Elaborating on the provisions of the Declaration of the Second Russia-Africa Summit, the sides held specialised meetings on international information security, counter-terrorism efforts, and the prevention of an arms race in outer space. Representatives of Russian and African media outlets took part in an event on measures to combat the manifestations of neo-colonialism. 

🤝 Sergey Lavrov met separately with a majority of African delegations on the sidelines of the conference.

✍️ The Officials signed an extensive package of memorandums and agreements between Russia and a number of African states.

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