DISPATCHES
While Yellen was in Zambia Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov met with his South African counterpart Naledi Pandor and praised Pretoria's 'independent and balanced' stance on the war in Ukraine...
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He was speaking alongside Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov who was on a regional tour drumming up African support for Moscow...
Vol 63 No 20 |
- BURKINA FASO
Damiba met Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly last month but it is not known whether Wagner was discussed...
To that extent in Africa Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov who was in New York for the UN meetings this month has succeeded in framing the Ukraine war an east-west conflict...
DISPATCHES
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's recent visits to Congo-Brazzaville Egypt Ethiopia and Uganda to prepare the ground for a second Africa-Russia Summit next year drew international and comparisons to the ideological battles of the first Cold War 1945-1990* (Dispatches 26/7/22 President Macron and Foreign Minister Lavrov vie for influence in pan-African tours this week and AC Vol 63 No 16 Washington in summit race with Moscow)...
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When Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced at a press conference in Egypt on 24 July that his country's second Africa summit would now be held in mid-2023 he didn't explain the delay...
DISPATCHES
Just after news of the attack broke Russia's Sergei Lavrov landed in Cairo to meet Sameh Shoukry his Egyptian opposite number before talking to a wider audience of ministers from the Arab League...
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Vol 63 No 8 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Whether this launched him into an ad hoc debate with a Cameroonian oppositionist at an agricultural show in Paris or a frosty encounter with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about the role of Moscow's mercenaries in Africa Macron showed a grasp and interest in Africa policy that few of his predecessors could match let alone his peers in other western governments...
This dependence has played to the advantage of Hemeti who met with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on the eve of the Ukraine invasion saying that Russia has 'the right to protect its people' and backing Russia's bid to build a naval base in Port Sudan (AC Vol 63 No 6 The junta runs out of bread and road)...
On the eve of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine Gen Hemeti met with senior Russian officials including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Fomin...
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