Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s welcome address at a working lunch with African countries’ Foreign Ministers

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s welcome address at a working lunch with African countries’ Foreign Ministers Saint Petersburg, July 27, 2023 Friends, First of all, forgive me for the delay, please, but you know how it is during major events. Our African brothers and sisters are used to large-scale events, and this event is comparable with an African Union summit. I believe that all of you are aware of Russia’s position, which President Vladimir Putin has put forth in great detail again during the plenary session of the Economic and Humanitarian Forum Russia-Africa today. The forum will be followed by the Russia-Africa Summit tomorrow. 🇷🇺🤝 We appreciate our relations and your resolve to continue to develop our ties on the basis of equality, mutual respect and friendship, despite the attempts by you know who to pursue unipolarity in international relations contrary to the objective course of history. This course is taking us towards a multipolar world where Africa will be one of the main centres. To Africa and our friendship! Источник: Russian MFA 🇷🇺