First Ministerial Conference
of the Russia–Africa Partnership Forum

Press centre

The First Ministerial Conference of the Russia–Africa Partnership Forum press centre is a modern, interactive venue offering a comfortable working environment for the media. It is located on the 2nd floor of Sirius University.

PRESS CENTRE OPERATING HOURS

9–10 November 08:00–20:00

ORGANIZING AND HOLDING PRESS EVENTS AT THE FIRST MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE OF THE RUSSIA–AFRICA PARTNERSHIP FORUM

Media work areas

Total area: 945 m2

Location: press centre (2nd floor of Sirius University)

Purpose: A work area for media representatives that is equipped with 188 work stations. Work stations are not personally assigned (to a media representative or media organization).

In addition to the work area, the First Ministerial Conference of the Russia–Africa Partnership Forum venue has signing ceremony points, a press conference hall, and also interview rooms and press points.

Rooms for press events

Press conference hall

Total area: 231 m2

Location: press centre (2nd floor of Sirius University)

Capacity: 50 seats, 3-seat panel area

Equipment: conference system, wireless microphones, simultaneous interpretation equipment, room for speakers, 2 plasma screens, prompter monitor for the panel area, speaker platform, lighting equipment

Free of charge for a slot of up to 60 minutes.

Signing ceremony point 1

Total area: 24 m2

Location: passage to the right of the entrance to the conference hall area
Capacity: 3-seat panel area
Equipment: PA system, 2 wireless microphones, lighting equipment

Free of charge for a slot of up to 15 minutes. 

Signing ceremony point 2

Total area: 24 m2

Location: in the zone where conference halls 1–6 are located 
Capacity: 3-seat panel area
Equipment: PA system, 2 wireless microphones, lighting equipment

Free of charge for a slot of up to 15 minutes.

Interview rooms

Interview lounges 1–6

Total area: 26 m2

Location: opposite the entrance to the media work area

Equipment: sofa, armchair, coffee table, 6 chairs, lighting equipment

Free of charge for a slot of up to 45 minutes.

Interview lounge 7

Total area: 36 m2

Location: press centre (2nd floor of Sirius University)

Equipment: sofa, armchair, coffee table, 8 chairs, lighting equipment

Free of charge for a slot of up to 45 minutes.

Press points

Press points are designed for interaction between official programme participants in the First Ministerial Conference of the Russia–Africa Partnership Forum and the media.

Locations

Press point 1 Passage by the escalator
Press point 2 Passage to the left of the entrance to the conference hall area
Press point 3 In the zone where conference halls 1–6 are located
Press point 4 Press centre (2nd floor of Sirius University)

Press points are designed with First Ministerial Conference of the Russia–Africa Partnership Forum branding and equipped with a PA system and lighting equipment.

Free of charge for a slot of up to 45 minutes.

In order to use our services to organize and hold press events, you need to fill in an application.

Contact information

For further information about our services and organization, you may contact our staff by email: press.centre@roscongress.org.


“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