The African direction is becoming increasingly important for Russia's foreign policy, Oleg Ozerov, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Head of the Secretariat of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum, told reporters.
"The African continent is becoming one of the priority areas of Russian foreign policy. Now we see that after the second summit [Russia-Africa], which yesterday our president [Vladimir Putin] called a breakthrough in his address to the Federal Assembly, allowed us to move to systematic work on building long-term strategic cooperation with the African continent," he pointed out.
The day before, Putin said that the African continent is increasingly loudly asserting its interests and the right to genuine sovereignty. "We sincerely support all these aspirations," Putin assured.
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Based on materials from TASS