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Roscongress to Support World Friendship Games in Russia

A special presentation of the World Friendship Games took place with the support of the Roscongress Foundation at the Russia–Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum. Russia’s new flagship sports project was front and centre during the session ‘Sport: A Bridge of Friendship between Russia and Africa’. Minister of Sport Oleg Matytsin and President of the World Friendship Games Organizing Committee Alexey Sorokin were also on hand to take part in the project presentation in the Ministry of Sport pavilion.

The World Friendship Games will be taking place in Moscow and Yekaterinburg from 15 to 29 September 2024. The programme includes events in 27 different sports. The Roscongress Foundation signed a cooperation agreement with the Organizing Committee of the World Friendship Games. The document was signed by Roscongress Foundation Chairman and CEO Alexander Stuglev and Alexey Sorokin.

“The Friendship Games are Russia’s new global project offering to world sport. As such, it is only natural to apply the considerable capabilities of Roscongress to the organization of such a large international event and take advantage of such important economic forums to promote the Games. The Roscongress sports platform has a wealth of experience in organizing major sports events, from the sports programme of the World Festival of Youth and Students to the World Wrestling Championships, introducing new competition formats, and facilitating cooperation among leading sports federations,” Roscongress Foundation Supervisory Board Member Georgy Bryusov said.

The World Friendship Games will bring together international athletes willing to compete without regard to politics. The only criterion for admission will be sporting achievements.

The Roscongress Foundation is the organizer of the Second Russia–Africa Summit and Economic and Humanitarian Forum.

The website of the event: summitafrica.ru

“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