Diplomat: Russia reshapes world order in Africa
"The world has entered an era of powerful transformations, which have influenced inter alia, Russian-African relations," Oleg Ozerov, Russian ambassador-at-large and head of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum told Newsweek.
Diplomat: Russia reshapes world order in Africa
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Diplomat: Russia reshapes world order in Africa

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Eurasia 01/06/2023 06:00

"The world has entered an era of powerful transformations, which have influenced inter alia, Russian-African relations," Oleg Ozerov, Russian ambassador-at-large and head of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum told Newsweek.

According to the article, "Ozerov pointed to two major developments in Moscow demonstrating this trend this past March. The first was the Russia-Africa Interparliamentary Conference which drew representatives from 40 out of the 54 nations of the continent. The second was the visit paid by Chinese President Xi Jinping, who has intensified his own nation's decades-long focus on bolstering ties with Africa".

The diplomat said that these two events "shattered the myth of Russia's alleged isolation due to the events in Ukraine, persistently promoted in the West." When it comes to African officials, he said that "most of them did not need explanations as to the rationale of Russia's actions in Ukraine."
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According to Newsweek, the Ukraine war has divided international opinion, but many non-aligned nations across the Global South, including in Africa, have maintained their neutrality. Russia has viewed this stance as further evidence of the shifting tides of the global order, it adds.

"The general well-balanced approach of the Global South in the context of Russia's confrontation with the West confirms once again that the transition to such a multipolar architecture is irreversible,"  Ozerov told Newsweek.

"There is a growing awareness across Africa and Latin America, China, and India, in the Islamic world and even among an increasing number of Europeans and North Americans that the time of dictate and unipolar world-order is running out, as demonstrated again by the developments in Ukraine," he added.

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