Specially Scheduled Shuttles to Take Russia–Africa Forum Participants to Venue

Special shuttles will begin providing regular service for participants of the Second Summit and Russia–Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum on 27 July free of charge. The shuttles will serve as the main form of transport to the Forum and will run along established routes from recommended hotels to the event site. Shuttles will also run from Pulkovo Airport and Moskovsky Rail Terminal. Uniformed transport coordinators with proper identification will be on duty at the departure points.

 

Advance registration is recommended for the shuttles and can be found in the special ‘Register for the shuttle’ section of the Roscongress personal account for media representatives or Forum Participants. Access to the shuttles will require registration and an accreditation badge, activated upon confirmation of a negative PCR test result. Participants are asked to keep in mind that the time required to reach the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre is 30 minutes only from 05:00 to 07:00. After that, the travel time to the Forum venue may increase to 1–1.5 hours. Travel time is also affected by inspection procedures at Forum venue entrance checkpoint 1.

 

The Forum venue can also be accessed from the special shuttle transport hubs. Media representatives travelling with equipment are asked to use transport hubs A3 and A4, and those travelling without equipment are invited to use any other convenient media representative transport hub. Non-accredited vehicles and taxis will be able to access the transport hub on Pulkovskoye shosse only, at which point Forum participants will need to transfer to a shuttle.

 

Transport hubs for participants:

А1 (Citilink, 43/2, Pulkovskoye shosse)

А2 (Pulkovo Airport park and ride, next to road police station)

В (public transport stop, Saritskaya ulitsa)

С (Privokzalnaya ploshchad, Pushkin)

 

Transport hubs for media representatives:

А3 (Masshtab, 11–13, Sheremetevskaya ulitsa)

А4 (Lenta, 11–13, Sheremetevskaya ulitsa)

В (public transport stop, Saritskaya ulitsa)

С (Privokzalnaya ploshchad, Pushkin)

 

The list of recommended hotels visited by shuttles to the Forum venue can be found here: Shuttles (summitafrica.ru).

 

Timetable of shuttles

 

From recommended hotels to the Forum venue (routes 1.1–1.9)

 

Date

Time and interval

2728 July

07:0012:00

30 min.

12:00–16:00

60 min.

16:00–21:00

30 min.

From transport hubs A1, A2, A3, A4 to the Forum venue (route 1.10)

 

Date

Time and interval

2728 July

07:00–23:30

30 min.

00:00–07:00

60 min.

 

 From transport hub B to the Forum venue (route 4.3)

 

Date

Time and interval

2728 July

05:00–23:45

30 min.

00:00–04:30

60 min.

 

From transport hub C to the Forum venue (route 4.4)

 

Date

Time and interval

2728 July

05:00–07:00

30 min.

21:00–00:30

 

From Pulkovo Airport to the Forum venue (route 2.2)

 

Date

Time and interval

2728 July

07:00–22:00

30 min.

 

From Moskovsky Rail Terminal to the Forum venue (route 2.4)

 

Date

Time and interval

2728 July

07:00–22:00

30 min.

 

“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