“African countries are simply being blatantly pressured, they are being asked every day to cancel their trip to the summit or to reduce their level of participation,” Sergei Lavrov said.
The Russian Foreign Minister accused Western countries of putting pressure on African countries “every day”. to cancel participation in the Russia-Africa summitThis month, in Saint Petersburg.
“African countries are just being blatantly pressed, they are asked every day to cancel their trip to the summit or to lower their level of participation; these are the paths of our western colleagues”, Serguei Lavrov said during a press conference, quoted by the Spanish news agency, EFE.
The head of Russian diplomacy asked his Western colleagues to treat African countries “like adults”able to make their own decisions and determine their relations with Russia. “I have been to Africa many times in the last two years, my colleagues told me that the pressure they had to endure was absolutely arrogant, shameless and no subterfuge,” she said. fixed.
Preparations for the summit on July 28 and 28 in Saint Petersburg are in the final stretch and participation at the highest level of fifty African nationssays EFE.
The summit, the diplomat pointed out, will be “a great declaration” that will outline the evolution of cooperation between Russia and the countries of the African continent “for years”. There will also be, on the sidelines of the meeting, an economic and media forum.
The first summit between Russia and Africa was held in October 2019 in the coastal city of Sochi under the motto “For peace, security and development”, the same theme this year.
Source: Observadora
