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Roscongress Foundation presents its projects at the African Energy Week in Cape Town

The African Energy Week takes place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 4 to 8 November 2024. The Roscongress Foundation is a strategic partner of the event and presents its projects on the central platform of the Forum. A cooperation agreement between the Roscongress Foundation and AEN organizer, the African Energy Chamber, was signed on the platform of the Russian Energy Week in October 2023. The organizations have established a partnership aimed at implementing joint projects and achieving mutually beneficial goals.

Among the projects presented by the Roscongress Foundation and the Roscongress International brand are the Foundation’s key platforms: St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Eastern Economic Forum, Russian Energy Week International Forum, as well as St. Petersburg International Legal Forum, Let’s Travel! Russian Tourism Forum, Young Scientist Congress, Healthy Life Forum, Caucasus Investment Forum and many others. Special attention was paid to foreign events of the ‘World of Opportunities’, which will be held in Dubai (UAE) on 13–15 November and in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) on 26–27 November. In addition, the stand presented Innovation Space, the flagship project of the Roscongress Foundation in the field of technology, science and venture investments.

The First Ministerial Conference of the Russia–Africa Partnership Forum, which will be held on 9–10 November at the Sirius Federal Territory with the participation of more than 100 ministers of the African continent, was also presented at the venue.

“Today, interaction between Russia and African countries is not just a link between two continents, it is about building bridges between cultures, economies, and peoples united by a common goal of development and prosperity. Following up on the decisions of the Second Russia–Africa Summit, which took place in St. Petersburg in 2023 in accordance with the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation, relations between Russia and the countries of the African continent are dynamically developing in various areas, including at the Forums. Business-to-business ties are gaining new impetus. The fact that Russia is represented at the African Energy Week confirms this. I am convinced that cooperation between Russia and the countries of the African continent in various areas has great prospects,” said Anton Kobyakov, Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation.

At the Roscongress Foundation stand at the African Energy Week, several meetings were held between the Foundation’s delegation and African partners, including Benedict Okey Oramah, President of Afreximbank; Anibor Kragha, Executive Secretary of the African Refiners and Distributors Association (ARDA); Dr Omar Farouk Ibrahim, Secretary General of the African Petroleum Producers Organisation (APPO); and NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman of the African Energy Chamber.

One of the central events of the AEN 2024 business programme, the Russia–Africa Round Table, will take place on 6 November. The event will be a continuation of the dialogue between Russia and African countries, whose prospects for cooperation were actively discussed at the BRICS Summit held in Kazan. Roman Marshavin, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, will head the Russian delegation at the African Energy Week. The panellists will identify promising opportunities for Russian companies in Africa’s energy sector and consider how Russia’s success in developing low-carbon energy can support Africa’s development. The discussion will cover topics ranging from financing energy projects to implementing supportive regulations to creating integrated energy systems and more.

The motto of the African Energy Week is ‘Invest in Africa’s Energy’. This year, the Forum will once again be a meeting place for African presidents, ministers and politicians to meet with regional and foreign investors. The event will take the format of an interactive multi-format exhibition and business event that will bring together international and African players in the energy sector.

Dialogue between Russia and African countries will continue during the First Ministerial Conference of the Russia–Africa Partnership Forum, which will be held on 9–10 November 2024 at the Sirius Federal Territory. The event will bring together the heads of the foreign ministries of the Russian Federation and the continent’s states, the African Union Commission, and the executive bodies of regional integration associations.

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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