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🌍 On May 25, the world celebrates #AfricaDay.
On this day in 1963, exactly 60 years ago, African governments convened in Addis Ababa for the first conference which laid the foundation for the creation of the Organisation of African Unity.
🇷🇺 Russia and Africa are united by traditional bonds of friendship, and it is symbolic that this anniversary year we are holding the second #RussiaAfrica Summit.
🤝 The Soviet Union supported the African countries in their fight for independence and played an important role in the development of the young countries on the continent. Soviet military advisers worked in Africa and military specialists have served in Angola, Ethiopia, Egypt, Mozambique and other African countries at various times.
🤝 Under pressure from the Soviet Union, the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples was adopted, which declared the need to end colonialism and any other form of discrimination.
❌ The Western powers are not just continuing to exploit the African nations, pumping out resources while counting corporate profits, but they have also been cleaning up their own ugly past.
The falsification of history is also about the cynical unpublished campaign to hush up the horrors of the colonial era. The West is trying to pretend that the suffering that many generations of Africans have gone through, as well as racism, the slave trade, murders and punitive operations, had nothing to do with them
A quickly made-up story about “events” aimed to highlight white people of the West’s concern for people of colour has been planted, but in fact, this is nothing more than a flashmob with no deep realisation of the harm. On the contrary, the ideology of a “beautiful garden” and a “wild jungle” is being promoted.
There is the pretence that everything that took place back then, in the colonial era, seemed to have happened and at the same time not to have happened at all.
☝️ Yet Africa remembers.
#AfricaDay
On this day in 1963, exactly 60 years ago, African governments convened in Addis Ababa for the first conference which laid the foundation for the creation of the Organisation of African Unity.
🇷🇺 Russia and Africa are united by traditional bonds of friendship, and it is symbolic that this anniversary year we are holding the second #RussiaAfrica Summit.
🤝 The Soviet Union supported the African countries in their fight for independence and played an important role in the development of the young countries on the continent. Soviet military advisers worked in Africa and military specialists have served in Angola, Ethiopia, Egypt, Mozambique and other African countries at various times.
🤝 Under pressure from the Soviet Union, the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples was adopted, which declared the need to end colonialism and any other form of discrimination.
❌ The Western powers are not just continuing to exploit the African nations, pumping out resources while counting corporate profits, but they have also been cleaning up their own ugly past.
The falsification of history is also about the cynical unpublished campaign to hush up the horrors of the colonial era. The West is trying to pretend that the suffering that many generations of Africans have gone through, as well as racism, the slave trade, murders and punitive operations, had nothing to do with them
A quickly made-up story about “events” aimed to highlight white people of the West’s concern for people of colour has been planted, but in fact, this is nothing more than a flashmob with no deep realisation of the harm. On the contrary, the ideology of a “beautiful garden” and a “wild jungle” is being promoted.
There is the pretence that everything that took place back then, in the colonial era, seemed to have happened and at the same time not to have happened at all.
☝️ Yet Africa remembers.
#AfricaDay
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🥳 Russian Embassies across the African continent join the celebrations on Africa Day!
Russian Ambassadors and diplomats congratulate African partners and friends in Lingale, Zulu, Bambara, Hausa, Baule, Fon, Ronga, Luganda, Oshiwambo, Swahili, Malagasy, Comorian, Creole, Somali, Amharic, Arabic, Portuguese, French and English.
🤝 We cherish our friendly ties, which are rooted in the period of the joint fight against colonialism, when our country supported the African national liberation movements and young African states.
🇷🇺🌍 It is highly symbolic that we are holding the second #RussiaAfrica Summit the same year the 60th anniversary of the Organisation of African Unity is celebrated. The Summit will become the most important foreign policy event in Russian-African relations and will give a palette of areas to cooperate and boost our long-term relations with the African nations.
🥳 Russian Embassies across the African continent join the celebrations on Africa Day!
Russian Ambassadors and diplomats congratulate African partners and friends in Lingale, Zulu, Bambara, Hausa, Baule, Fon, Ronga, Luganda, Oshiwambo, Swahili, Malagasy, Comorian, Creole, Somali, Amharic, Arabic, Portuguese, French and English.
🤝 We cherish our friendly ties, which are rooted in the period of the joint fight against colonialism, when our country supported the African national liberation movements and young African states.
🇷🇺🌍 It is highly symbolic that we are holding the second #RussiaAfrica Summit the same year the 60th anniversary of the Organisation of African Unity is celebrated. The Summit will become the most important foreign policy event in Russian-African relations and will give a palette of areas to cooperate and boost our long-term relations with the African nations.
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✍️ President Vladimir Putin sent greetings to African heads of state and government on #AfricaDay.
✉️ This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Organisation of African Unity. For decades, this representative international organisation had played a crucial role in the development of multilateral dialogue and cooperation. Its good traditions are currently carried on by the African Union, within which all states on the continent are actively interacting. Thanks to their joint efforts, it was possible to establish mechanisms of collective response to local crises and launch processes of regional integration in various formats. This, undoubtedly, facilitates the social and economic development of Africa, and increases its role in international affairs.
Russia has always attached special importance to strengthening relations with its African partners. The first #RussiaAfrica Summit, held in 2019, gave a boost to our ties in many areas.
☝️ I am sure that the second Russia-Africa Summit, which will take place in St Petersburg in July, will help us outline new tasks aimed at expanding the constructive cooperation between our country and our African partners in the political, trade and economic, scientific and technological, humanitarian and other areas.
🇷🇺🌍 I will be delighted to welcome African leaders to St Petersburg. I sincerely wish all of you good health and success in your state activities and wish your citizens peace and prosperity.
✉️ This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Organisation of African Unity. For decades, this representative international organisation had played a crucial role in the development of multilateral dialogue and cooperation. Its good traditions are currently carried on by the African Union, within which all states on the continent are actively interacting. Thanks to their joint efforts, it was possible to establish mechanisms of collective response to local crises and launch processes of regional integration in various formats. This, undoubtedly, facilitates the social and economic development of Africa, and increases its role in international affairs.
Russia has always attached special importance to strengthening relations with its African partners. The first #RussiaAfrica Summit, held in 2019, gave a boost to our ties in many areas.
☝️ I am sure that the second Russia-Africa Summit, which will take place in St Petersburg in July, will help us outline new tasks aimed at expanding the constructive cooperation between our country and our African partners in the political, trade and economic, scientific and technological, humanitarian and other areas.
🇷🇺🌍 I will be delighted to welcome African leaders to St Petersburg. I sincerely wish all of you good health and success in your state activities and wish your citizens peace and prosperity.
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the reception on #AfricaDay
💬 Our country has always paid special attention to relations with Africa. We developed close ties of friendship and solidarity with its peoples during their liberation from the colonial oppression.
At that time, the Soviet Union supported its African friends in their natural striving for independence. The USSR rendered young African states tangible diplomatic, economic, technical, military and other support. It signed cooperation agreements with 37 African countries.
We did not suspend our political dialogue with Africa even in the 1990s when Russia faced numerous problems itself. We developed cooperation in personnel training, helped African states maintain their defence capabilities and resolve other problems.
Additional opportunities for developing our ties are opening up with the strengthening of Russia and Africa’s positions as centres of a multi-polar world. As genuine friends, we are developing this cooperation along the lines of equality, observance of international law and non-interference in other’s internal affairs.
🤝 Russia is helping the African states in good faith to strengthen sovereignty and ensure security and economic growth. This is a difference of principle between the collective West and us. The West has not outlived its superiority syndrome and is trying to perpetuate neo-colonial practices.
In this context, I would like to thank our African partners that have not allowed themselves to be drawn into the anti-Russia campaign and have held a balanced position on the European security crisis.
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💬 Our country has always paid special attention to relations with Africa. We developed close ties of friendship and solidarity with its peoples during their liberation from the colonial oppression.
At that time, the Soviet Union supported its African friends in their natural striving for independence. The USSR rendered young African states tangible diplomatic, economic, technical, military and other support. It signed cooperation agreements with 37 African countries.
We did not suspend our political dialogue with Africa even in the 1990s when Russia faced numerous problems itself. We developed cooperation in personnel training, helped African states maintain their defence capabilities and resolve other problems.
Additional opportunities for developing our ties are opening up with the strengthening of Russia and Africa’s positions as centres of a multi-polar world. As genuine friends, we are developing this cooperation along the lines of equality, observance of international law and non-interference in other’s internal affairs.
🤝 Russia is helping the African states in good faith to strengthen sovereignty and ensure security and economic growth. This is a difference of principle between the collective West and us. The West has not outlived its superiority syndrome and is trying to perpetuate neo-colonial practices.
In this context, I would like to thank our African partners that have not allowed themselves to be drawn into the anti-Russia campaign and have held a balanced position on the European security crisis.
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