📆 On Tuesday,July 25, 2023, St. Petersburg will host the Russian-African Conference of the Valdai Club, titled “Russia and African Countries: Established Traditions of Interaction and Prospects for Cooperation in a New World”.

🌐 More than 60 people from 12 countries have been invited to participate in the Valdai Club’s first African Conference, including guests from Algeria, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Ruanda, Russia and South Africa.

In the new geopolitical conditions, Africa is becoming one of priorities of the Russian foreign policy. The Russian-African conference is aimed at holding a frank conversation about how Russian and African experts see the future development of the world, Russia’s position on the African continent, how the parties can interact in new economic, political and social conditions, and how to take relations to a new level, strengthening the traditional political solidarity.

The Valdai Club Conference will actually become the final synchronisation of watches at the expert level in the run-up to the Russia-Africa Summit.

📌 Programme of the Conference

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🌍 In the past few years – which is the blink of an eye historically – Africa has started taking on increasingly important roles on the world stage.

It’s as if a huge continent surfaced in the modern political ocean, as if the lost city of Atlantis had returned.

Now Africa, with all its complexity, is acquiring its own agency. Moreover, this agency exists at the global level. It is enough to mention the attempt by some African countries to find a solution to the conflict in Ukraine. 

The African nations had their own views on the world around them, that they could and would definitely play their own considerable role in the development of a new system of international relations. It was also clear – and this is no less important – that the enormous African continent was becoming a testing ground for the formation of a new global system.

The continent has speeded up its movement. There is every reason to believe that Africa will become one of the leading forces, one of the dominant forces for global development if only because of its enormous human and natural resources.

Of course, all forecasts are probabilistic. But it gives us a reason to speak about the future. This is what will happen in St Petersburg on July 25 at the Valdai Club Russia-Africa conference “Russia and African Countries: Established Traditions of Interaction and Prospects for Cooperation in a New World”, writes Valdai Club Chairman Andrey Bystritskiy.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/chairman-speech/rising-out-of-the-ocean/

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