2023-07-28 20:31:29
A joint declaration was adopted at the end of this meeting, providing for increased cooperation in the areas of food supply, energy and development aid. She calls for create a more just, balanced and sustainable multipolar world order, firmly opposing any form of international confrontation on the African continent “, According to the text published on the Kremlin website.
The text also provides that Moscow will help African countries to ” obtain reparation for the economic and humanitarian damage caused by colonial policies “westerners, including” restitution of cultural property » looted.
The Russian President announced that the Russia-Africa Summit will now be held every three years and a “ partnership and dialogue mechanism will be created for the security issues including for the fight against terrorism, food security and climate change.
« There is also talk of systematically switching to national currencies, including the ruble, in financial settlements of commercial transactions between Russia and Africa, Vladimir Putin added.
A hole in the photo…
The summit ended on a warmer note than it began. The Comorian president, also chairman of the AU, enthusiastically congratulated the Russian president for ” very good success “from this summit” for Vladimir Putin, and for us Africans “, he insisted.
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Hope for a concrete boom in Russian cooperation, better representation in multilateral bodies… But caution on cereals: Azali Assoumani repeated that Russian donations were not enough, that a cease-fire was needed. with Ukraine and that the African States which are suffering from this war were ready to pose as “mediators”.
The day before, Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso had also stressed that ” when two elephants fought, it was the grass that was crushed »…
These two leaders were not in the family photo with Vladimir Poutine, any more than the presidents of Guinea-Bissau and Senegal, Umaro Sissoco Embalo and Macky Sall.
… and public estrangements
Tensions between African leaders erupted on Friday, July 28, when Captain Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso decided to ” washing dirty laundry with family during a round table bringing together all the partners present at this summit. It was the first time that Captain Ibrahim Traoré found himself before such an assembly, he who leads a country suspended from ECOWAS and the African Union since January 2022.
The president of the transition in Burkina Faso addressed frontally to the twenty heads of state and government gathered around Vladimir Putin: “ I’m going to apologize to the elders that I could upset in my future remarks. The questions that our generations are asking are the following: it is a question of understanding how, with so much wealth on our soil, Africa is today the poorest continent. And how is it that our heads of state cross the world begging? We, African heads of state, must stop behaving like puppets who dance every time the imperialists pull the strings. »
Words that the Senegalese president did not miss. Macky Sall replied to Captain Traoré, from the start of his intervention: “ To answer our younger brother, our younger brother: the heads of state did not come here to beg. We don’t go anywhere else to reach out. We work for a partnership of equal dignity between peoples. It’s the same speech that we hold in Dakar, here in Saint Petersburg, or in Washington. And this fight transcends generations. »
Captain Traoré appears in fatigues to the right of Vladimir Putin in the official photo. A photo that the presidents of Senegal, Congo and Guinea-Bissau therefore preferred to boycott.
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