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Great African Expedition to embark from Kaliningrad

The Great African Expedition 2024/2025 will kick off at the Kaliningrad Sea Fishing Port on 21 August 2024. The research mission, which will be held with the support of the Roscongress Foundation, will seek to assess the biological resources in Africa’s Exclusive Maritime Economic Zone.

“The expedition will provide valuable scientific data on Africa’s biological resources and new opportunities for Russia’s fishing industry to develop as it expands export markets and strengthens Russia’s geopolitical position in Africa. The mission is an important step towards Russia’s strategic goal to strengthen international cooperation and gain access to promising new markets,”- Head of the Federal Agency for Fisheries Ilya Shestakov said.

The event will be attended by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Patrushev, Head of the Federal Agency for Fisheries Ilya Shestakov, Acting Governor of the Kaliningrad Region Alexey Besprozvannykh, and the ambassadors of the countries where the research will take place, among other officials.

“The Roscongress Foundation is teaming up with Rosrybolovstvo (Federal Agency for Fisheries) to hold a series of economic and cultural events in the countries of call during the expedition to expand ties and develop cooperation. The legendary barque “Kruzenshtern” will join the voyage in the name of cross-cultural friendship and understanding. The scientists on the research vessels are laying the foundation for future fishery cooperation by collecting data that will identify the potential for joint projects, investment, and fisheries development in Africa,” Deputy CEO of the Roscongress Foundation and Director of the Eastern Economic Forum Igor Pavlov said.

The event programme includes a launching ceremony, a meeting with the crews involved, and a closer look at one of the research vessels and the Kruzenshtern, the training vessel joining the expedition.

The expedition will take place in 2024–2025 in accordance with Order No. 1538-r of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 19 June 2024, inspired by the Russia–Africa Summit 2023.

In continuation of the agreements reached at the Summit, the First Ministerial Conference of the Russia–Africa Partnership Forum will be held at Sirius in autumn 2024. The event is being organized by the Roscongress Foundation. Meeting participants will consider the interim results of key agreements with the conference to focus on expanding cooperation between BRICS and Africa.

 

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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