📆 TOMORROW, July 19 at 12:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club will host an expert discussion dedicated to its 2nd Russian-African Conference, titled “Russia – Africa: Strategy for Cooperation in a Multipolar World”, which will take place on July 24 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

During the discussion, two expert publications will be presented, prepared especially for discussion at the conference in Tanzania:

🔹 The Valdai Club report “Russia-Africa Cooperation: Outlook and Objectives”

🔹 The Valdai Paper “Tanzanian New Ground for Russian Businesses. Prospects for Cooperation in Agriculture”

❓What has been achieved in the year since the Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg?
❓How has the expansion of BRICS affected the Russian-African dialogue?
❓What are the prospects for the transition to new financial mechanisms in mutual settlements?
❓In what ways do the approaches of Russia and African countries to the problems of climate change, the fight against poverty and inequality in the world coincide?

Participants in the discussion will try to answer these and other questions.

A link to the live broadcast of the discussion will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the Twitter, Telegram and Zen.

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🎥 LIVE: at 12:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club will host an expert discussion dedicated to its 2nd Russian-African Conference, titled “Russia – Africa: Strategy for Cooperation in a Multipolar World”, which will take place on July 24 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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🗣 On July 19, 2024, the Valdai Club will hosted an expert discussion dedicated to its 2nd Russian-African Conference, titled “Russia – Africa: Strategy for Cooperation in a Multipolar World”, which will take place on July 24 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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🇷🇺🌍 Russia and Africa: Reliable Partners

On July 19, the Valdai Club held an expert discussion dedicated to the 2nd Russian-African Conference, titled “Russia – Africa: A strategy for cooperation in a multipolar world,” which will take place on July 24 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Moderator Oleg Barabanov invited participants to discuss how Russian foreign policy with regards to Africa is developing and what tasks it sets for itself.

💬 Oleg Ozerov, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Head of the Secretariat of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum, presented an overview of Russia’s interaction with the African continent. He noted that the political dialogue both with individual countries and with the African Union as a whole is developing intensively. Preparations are now underway for the first meeting of the foreign ministers of Russia and African countries in Sochi, scheduled for November. The trend towards African sovereignty continues to intensify. The continent is ready for a breakthrough.

💬 Mayya Nikolskaya, acting Director of the Centre for African Studies at MGIMO, who authored the Valdai Paper on Russian-Tanzanian economic interaction, spoke about the partnership between Russia and Tanzania. She emphasised that the topic of partnership “is close to the Tanzanian national spirit and the way Tanzanians see international politics.” Tanzania is one of those African countries that has been preoccupied with introducing its own vision of national development since decolonisation. It has a distinctive culture, supports autochthonous capital and, in principle, tends to rely on its own strengths and different trading partners.

💬 Daria Ilyenko, acting Head of the Russian House in Dar es Salaam, briefly outlined the activities of Rossotrudnichestvo in Tanzania and on the African continent as a whole. There are now eight state-owned Russian Houses in Africa, but Rossotrudnichestvo is also working to open non-state ones via local NGOs. The main tasks facing these centres are strengthening the role of the Russian language, supporting compatriots, and promoting Russian science, culture and education, which, according to Ilyenko, remains one of the main components of Russian influence in Africa. In particular, education is one of the main vectors of Russian-Tanzanian cooperation.

💬 Nourhan ElSheikh, Professor of Political Science at Cairo University and Member of the Egyptian Council on Foreign Affairs, called Russia a reliable partner of Africa and noted that now it makes sense to focus on economic cooperation. In this area, in her opinion, much has been achieved, but the level that would completely suit both Africa and Russia has not yet been achieved. It is necessary to increase trade volumes and implement ideas about trading in national currencies and developing systems of international payments and money transfers. An action plan with clear deadlines is probably needed.

💬 Mikatekiso Kubayi, a researcher at the UNISA Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, examined Russian-African relations in the context of the transition to a multipolar world and the development of a multilateral approach in which Africa and the countries of the Global South get a voice and the opportunity to advance their interests. Africa is not the most powerful region nor the richest; for a long time, much was imposed on it from the outside, in fact not even allowing it to the negotiating table, but now it is finally trying to insist on its own. Against this background, the continent, despite external pressure, has chosen Russia as its development partner.

https://valdaiclub.com/events/posts/articles/russia-and-africa-reliable-partners/

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