The President of Russia invited African countries to the World Youth Festival

The President of Russia invited African countries to the World Youth Festival in March 2024.

This has been mentioned in the article “Russia and Africa: Joining Efforts for Peace, Progress and a Successful Future” published on the Kremlin’s website.

“Bringing humanitarian, cultural, sports and mass media cooperation to a whole new level would serve our common interests. I would like to seize this opportunity to invite our young African friends to the World Youth Festival, which will take place in Sochi, Russia, in March 2024. This large-scale international forum will bring together more than 20,000 participants from more than 180 countries for an informal, friendly and open dialogue that is free from ideological and political barriers, racial and religious prejudice and would consolidate the young generation around the ideas of lasting and durable peace, prosperity and creative spirit,” the President of the Russian Federation said in his article.

The President also noted that “today, the constructive, trustful, forward-looking partnership between Russia and Africa is especially significant and important”. According to the President, major centers of economic and political power and influence are emerging in the world, which are asserting themselves more and more insistently, demanding that they be reckoned with. He expressed confidence that “a new multipolar world order, the contours of which are already seen, will be more just and democratic”. Putin said that he had no doubt that Africa, along with Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, “will take its worthy place in it and finally free itself from the bitter legacy of colonialism and neo-colonialism, rejecting its modern practices”.

“Russia welcomes the rising international authority of individual states as well as Africa as a whole, their desire to make their voices strongly heard and to take the continent's problems into their own hands. We have always supported the constructive initiatives of our partners. We stand for granting African countries their rightful place in the structures that determine the world’s fate, including the UN Security Council and the G20, as well as for reforming the global financial and trade institutions in a way that meets their interests,” the President added.

Source: RIA Novosti

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