March 20
16:32. The Second International Parliamentary Conference “Russia-Africa” has come to its end. The Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin proposed to hold the Conference annually.
15:16. The President of the Russian Federation Valdimir Putin stressed that Russia had always given and would continue to give priority to cooperation with African countries. He added that Russia and African countries stood against neocolonial ideology imposed by foreign states.
“We are convinced that Africa will become one of the leaders of the emerging new multipolar world order, as there are all objective prerequisites for that,” said the President of the Russian Federation. Follow the link to find more information about the President’s address.
15:00. The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has started his address to the Conference participants. Watch live broadcast on our website.
13:27. “Our relations have always been built on a disinterested basis, on the principles of mutual respect and non-interference in internal affairs. For our country, the African continent has never been the subject of mercantile interest, the use of labor and raw materials, and we cannot say the same about the United States of America and European states,” stated the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin in his speech. Follow the link to read the full text of the speech.
“Russia is a powerful country, Russians are great people. Russia has a great President and statesman,” said the President of the National People’s Assembly of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau Cipriano Cassamá. “We are always on his side, we stand with him, because we see that President Vladimir Putin, the Russian people, in any conditions continue providing support to other countries. And we will be together with Russia,” stressed the parliamentarian. Follow the link to find other points of view of the African parliamentarians.
12:01. The plenary session “Russia-Africa in a Miltipolar World” has started. Watch the plenary session live on our website.
11:50. The State Duma and the National People’s Assembly of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau will create a friendship group to professionally discuss key issues. Read more about the outcomes of the meeting of Vyacheslav Volodin and Cipriano Cassamá on our website.
11:36. The Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin held a meeting with the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe Celmira de Almeida do Sacramento dos Santos Lourenço. Vyacheslav Volodin noted that relations between Russia and São Tomé and Príncipe “are just at the beginning of development”, but the cooperation between parliamentarians could give new impetus. Follow the link to find more information about the meeting.
09:00. The plenary session of the Second International Parliamentary Conference “Russia-Africa” is scheduled to be held today. The beginning of the plenary session at 12:00. President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin will address the Conference participants. Watch the plenary session live on our website.
March 19
19:25. The topic “Neocolonialism of the West: How to Prevent the Repetition of History” was discussed at the round table during the Second International Parliamentary Conference “Russia-Africa”. Parliamentarians of Russia and the countries of the African continent, as well as leading Russian experts, exchanged views and outlined a trajectory for further dialogue based on the principles of mutual respect. More information can be found on our website.
19:10. Participants of the round table discussion on the topic “Indivisible Security: Capabilities and Contributions of Parliaments” discussed importance of sovereignty protection, non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries, fight against poverty, countering terrorism and military biological threats. To read more follow the link.
17:00. The round table discussion on the topics “Indivisible Security: Capabilities and Contributions of Parliaments” and “Neocolonialism of the West: How to Prevent the Repetition of History” have started.
The Deputy
Chairman of the State Duma Petr Tolstoy
Petr Olegovich
, the President of the National Assembly
of the Central African Republic Simplice Mathieu Sarandji, the President of the Transitional Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Burkina Faso Ousmane
Bougouma, the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Zimbabwe
Jacob Mudenda, head of the delegation, Vice President of the Council of the Nation of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria Hamood Abdenasser, the Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky
Leonid Eduardovich
, the Chairman
of the Committee on Issues of the Commonwealth of Independent States and Contacts with Fellow Countrymen Leonid Kalashnikov
Leonid Ivanovich
, the Chairman of the Committee on Security and Corruption Control Vasily Piskarev
Vasily Ivanovich
, Russian and African parliamentarians and experts are taking part in the discussions.
16:25. The round table discussion on the topic “Legislative Response to Economic Challenges” has just finished. Russian parliamentarians discussed with Russian executive authorities and experts issues of promoting f Russian education. The main information about the recent discussion is on our website.
16:19. The Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin
Vyacheslav Victorovich
The Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the eighth convocation. Elected in single mandate constituency № 163 (Saratov constituency - Saratov Oblast)
held
a meeting with the heads of delegations of the parliaments of African countries.
On the eve of the plenary session of the Conference, which will be held on March 20, the speakers discussed new formats of cooperation between parliaments, including within the framework of relevant committees, and the creation of inter-parliamentary commissions, as well as the development of common approaches to provide legal support to economy, science and education, security in multipolar world conditions.
15:58. Parliamentarians from Russia and Africa discussed issues of development of economic cooperation. The round table discussion on the topic “Legislative Response to Economic Challenges” was held as part of the events of the Second International Parliamentary Conference “Russia-Africa”. To learn more about the main outcomes of the discussion of the African parliamentarians with their Russian colleagues, business representatives and experts follow the link.
15:37. The Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin held a meeting with the President of the Transitional Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Burkina Faso Ousmane Bougouma. According to Vyacheslav Volodin, the parliamentarians have reached an agreement to create a working group between the Parliaments of two states.
“Our people have made a completely clear and obvious choice: we want not only to diversify our international partnership, but also to strengthen cooperation with Russia. This is not a short-term phenomenon, this is a long-term and confident choice — partnership with Russia,” emphasized the President of the Transitional Legislative Assembly of Burkina Faso. Find more information about the meeting on our website.
13:55. The Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin held a meeting with the President of the National Assembly of the Central African Republic Simplice Mathieu Sarandji. The meeting participants discussed prospects for inter-parliamentary cooperation between Russia and the Central African Republic. Find more information about the meeting on our website.
13:10. During the meeting of the Chairman of the State Duma with the President of the National Transitional Council of the Republic of Mali Malick Diaw, the meeting participants discussed further development of cooperation between Russia and Mali and signing of the inter-parliamentary agreement between the State Duma and the Parliament of the Republic. Find more information about the meeting on our website.
13:00. The round table discussions on the topics “Parliamentary Support of Scientific and Educational Cooperation” and “Legislative Response to Economic Challenges” have started. Follow the link to watch live broadcasts.
The First Deputy
Chairmen of the State Duma Alexander Zhukov
Alexander Dmitrievich
and Ivan Melnikov
Ivan Ivanovich
, the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Zimbabwe Jacob Mudenda, the head of the delegation of the National Assembly of Madagascar Honoré Rasolonjatovo, head of the delegation, deputy quaestor of the National Assembly of the Democratic
Republic of Congo Jean-Pierre Kanefu, the Chairman of the State Duma Committee
on Energy Pavel Zavalny
Pavel Nikolaevich
, the Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic
Policy Maxim Topilin
Maxim Anatolievich
, Russian and African parliamentarians and experts are
taking part in the round table discussions.
12:17. The Chairman of the State Duma held a bilateral meeting with the President of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Congo Pierre Ngolo. Vyacheslav Volodin said that it was planned to hold the International Parliamentary Conference “Russia-Africa” annually. The Chairman of the State Duma added that the Conference could be “a good basis for building our relations on the principles of friendship and mutual respect, non-interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states.” More information about the meeting can be found on our website.
11:56. Bilateral meeting between the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin and the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Zimbabwe Jacob Mudenda was held at the State Duma. “Relations between our countries are developing dynamically most of all because of a high-level dialogue between the heads of our states. It is important for us to provide legislative support to the decisions made at the highest level,” stressed Vyacheslav Volodin.
“Zimbabwe is with you, Zimbabwe is with Russia countering sanctions,” said Jacob Mudenda. To find more information about the meeting follow the link.
11:51. Business breakfast with participation of representatives
of the business community was held as part of the events of the Second
International Parliamentary Conference “Russia-Africa”. Leading Russian
companies told parliamentarians from African countries about promising projects
in the interests of mutually beneficial cooperation. Find more information
about the business breakfast on our website.
09:30. The Second International Parliamentary Conference “Russia-Africa” has started in Moscow. Today, there is scheduled to hold round tables discussions with participation of Russian and African parliamentarians, experts. The Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin will hold several bilateral meetings.
Watch round table discussions live on our website.
March 17
The Second International Parliamentary Conference “Russia-Africa” starts soon, so there are being held preparations for the event. Follow the link to check the recent photos of the Conference participants.
The bilateral meeting of the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin and Speaker of the National Assembly of the Parliament of South Africa Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula was held at the State Duma. The Speaker stressed that the Republic highly appreciated the dialogue with Russia. You can find more information about the meeting on our website.
More than 40 official delegations from almost all African states, as well as leading experts took part in the Conference. They discussed with their Russian colleagues topical issues of the international parliamentary agenda.
The following round table discussions were held within the framework of the events of the Conference:
On March 19, there was held a business breakfast with participation of the parliamentary delegations of African states and Russian business representatives.
On March 20, there was held a plenary session of the International Parliamentary Conference entitled “Russia-Africa in the multipolar world” at the State Duma (the Pillar Hall of the House of the Unions).
The Conference was held just few months before the Second Russia-Africa Summit, which is planned to be held on July 2023 in Saint Petersburg.
The first International Parliamentary Conference “Russia-Africa” was held in Moscow in 2019.
