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Business Programme Architecture for Russia–Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum Published

The Russia–Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum will take place in ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre (St. Petersburg) on 26–29 July 2023. The event is designed to showcase the various forms and areas of Russian-African cooperation, as well as to define their development in the long term. The Forum programme will include panel sessions and thematic events on major issues of cooperation between Russia and Africa, including trade, investment, industry, technology transfer, food and energy security, digitalization, healthcare, education, science, media, and youth exchanges.

“Africa and Russia are the new centres of an emerging multipolar world. By helping each other, we are on the way to building strong, prosperous and secure regions. The main theme of this year’s Forum is ‘Technology and Security for Sovereign Development that Benefits People’,” noted Anton Kobyakov, Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation.

The business programme will include four large thematic tracks: ‘The New Global Economy’, ‘Integrated Security and Sovereign Development’, ‘Cooperation in Science and Technology’, and ‘The Humanitarian and Social Sphere: Working Together for a New Quality of Life’.

International security, fertilizer market stability, food security issues and discussions on joint efforts to combat epidemics and emergencies will be the main topics of the ‘Integrated Security and Sovereign Development’ track.

Prospects for cooperation in the energy, trade and economic sectors, creation and development of new logistics routes will be discussed in the ‘The New Global Economy’ track.

A large block of the programme will also be devoted to cooperation in the field of technology. Nuclear technology, shipbuilding, mining, healthcare and other important areas will be discussed here.

Education, tourism, the film industry and the development of voluntary movements will be the themes of the fourth track of the business programme entitled ‘The Humanitarian and Social Sphere: Working Together for a New Quality of Life’.

In addition, on the sidelines the Russia–Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum will hold the Media Forum, the Meeting of University Rectors, and the Roundtable attended by Russian and African Supreme Audit Institutions. An intensive youth programme is planned at the Forum.

The full business programme architecture is available on the official Forum website summitafrica.ru.

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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