Venue

SIRIUS UNIVERSITY

The First Ministerial Conference of the Russia–Africa Partnership Forum will take place on 9–10 November 2024 at the Sirius University.

Sirius Federal Territory, 1, Olimpiysky Prospekt

ABOUT SIRIUS UNIVERSITY

Sirius University is located in the Main Media Centre of Sochi Olympic Park. The building opened on 7 January 2014, a month before the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

It is currently the largest convention and exhibition centre in the Krasnodar Territory and a venue that hosts major Russian and international events: Russian Labour Safety Week, the World Festival of Youth, and the Russia–Africa Summit and Economic Forum.

The building is the year-round home to the Sirius Educational Centre, which was built by the Talent and Success Educational Foundation using Olympic infrastructure based on an initiative by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Foundation was established on 24 December 2014 by prominent Russian scientific, sports, and art figures.

The mission of the Sirius Educational Centre is to identify gifted children at an early age who have demonstrated outstanding abilities in the arts, sports, and natural sciences and have also achieved success in technical creativity, and to develop and provide them with further professional support.

DIRECTIONS

PERSONAL VEHICLE

It takes 10–15 minutes to reach to Sirius Park of Science and Art by car from Sochi International Airport and Adler Railway Station, and about an hour from downtown Sochi and Krasnaya Polyana village.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Poselok Mirny bus stop
Buses: 50, 54, 56, 58, 60, 109, 117, 125p, 132, and 134

Media Centre (Triumfalnaya Ulitsa) bus stop

Buses: 135, 125s, 57

Take the train to the Olympic Village Railway Station.

“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