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Young Africans to be invited to World Festival of Youth

On 28 July, the World Youth Festival will be presented as part of the business programme of the Russia–Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum. The main aim is to expand the areas of focus of Russian–African youth cooperation and invite young African leaders to the Festival. Ekaterina Antonova, General Director, Directorate of the World Festival of Youth and Students, will take part in the event.

The head of the Festival Directorate will also speak at the strategic session entitled Initiator of Change: Youth Projects and Long-Term Cooperation, on the prospects of interaction between Russian and African youth. Other participants in the discussion will include Maria Zakharova, Director, Department of Information and the Press, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ahmed Bening Wiisichong, Secretary General of the Pan-African Youth Union, Grigory Zaslavskiy, Rector, Russian Institute of Theatre Arts GITIS, Svetlana Anufrieva, Minister of Youth Policy of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Yevgeny Primakov, Head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Salaheddine Tiar, Founder, Algeria Youth Ambassadors, Artemy Ponyavin, Director of the Executive Committee, "National Delphic Council of Russia" All-Russian Public Organization, Konstantin Fursov, Member of the Coordinating Council for Youth Affairs in the Scientific and Educational Spheres of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Science and Education, Daria Borisova, Director of Avangard, and Sergey Mikhnevich, Executive Secretary of the Presidium of the EAEU Business Council.

The World Festival of Youth will be held in 2024 in accordance with a decree from Russian President Vladimir Putin in order to develop international youth cooperation. At the first meeting of the Organizing Committee, chaired by Sergey Kiriyenko, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office of the Russian Federation, it was decided to hold the Festival in the Sirius Federal Territory on 1–7 March, 2024. The regional programme of the World Festival of Youth will be held on 10–17 March, 2024; participants will visit 26 Russian cities.

A total of 20,000 young leaders in business, media, education, science, international cooperation, culture, volunteering, charity, sports, and various other spheres, including 10,000 foreign participants, will take part in the Festival in 2024. For the first time in the history of the Festival movement, teenagers aged 14–17 will get the opportunity to take part in the event: 500 from Russia and 500 from abroad.

 

DATE AND TIME:

28 July, 2023.

14:00–14:30 (Festival presentation, passage hall, zone G, VinoGrad);

16:00–17:30 (panel discussion, pavilion G, conference hall G5).


VENUE:

ExpoForum, St. Petersburg

NEWSMAKERS:

● Ekaterina Antonova, General Director, Directorate of the World Festival of Youth and Students. 

MEDIA CONTACTS:

Yana Korchik, Head of Press, World Festival of Youth

Tel. +7 (922) 886 7748, press@fest2024.com

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“We highly value the results of our joint work at the summit. I am sure the achieved results are creating a good foundation for further deepening the Russia-Africa partnership in the interests of our nations’ prosperity and wellbeing.”

President of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Putin

The Russia–Africa Summit, which is taking place in Sochi on 23–24 October 2019, encapsulates the historically friendly relations between the African continent and the Russian Federation. This Summit carries great significance as it is the first of its kind to emerge during a period of major global and international transformations. In response to the aspirations of the people it is representing, the Summit intends to build a comprehensive framework for expanding Russian–African relations into broader horizons of joint cooperation across different fields.

The African nations and Russia share a common understanding of international relations, based on the principles of respect for the rule of international law, equality, non-interference in the internal affairs of states, and the peaceful resolution of disputes. Both sides affirm their commitment to support multilateral actions to oppose new international threats, be they terrorism and extremism in all their forms, or declining growth rates. The two sides share a firm conviction regarding the importance of developing trade flows and supporting mutual investment in such a way as to ensure security, peace and development for the African and Russian people.

African countries have huge potential and opportunities that will allow them, once efforts to streamline their economies have been achieved, to emerge as real global players. In recent years, the nations of this continent have achieved major successes spanning the political, economic, social and administrative spheres. Africa has flourished in terms of growth over the past decade, reaching a continent-wide growth rate of 3.55% in 2018.

The African Union Summit, which was held in Niger in July 2019, continued the efforts of the African countries and saw the African Continental Free Trade Agreement come into force, along with its operational instruments. The agreement is one of the key objectives of Agenda 2063, an African development strategy that has been created to address the African people’s desire for prosperity and decent living standards.

These successes are opening up wide-ranging prospects for cooperation between African countries and the Russian Federation, and confirm the determination of African governments and their people to cooperate with multiple partners in order to establish mutually beneficial relations.

With this in mind, we express our hopes that the Russia–Africa Summit will help in the establishment of constructive strategic relations, based on partnership between two sides across various fields, and in the service of fulfilling the hopes and aspirations of the African people and their friends in Russia.

President of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Abdelfattah ALSISI