Russia: Washington and Brussels blockade Africa with demands to stop contacts with Moscow

WORLD, March 16 (YPA) – An official at the Russian Foreign Ministry said delegations from the United States, Canada and the European Union are besieging African leaders and demanding them to stop cooperating with Moscow.

Oleg Ozerov, Russian ambassador-at-large and the head of the Russia-Africa partnership forum, stated that there are many examples of this kind of pressure. First of all, they are besieging African leaders, authorities, parliaments and delegations that come almost daily from Washington and from other Anglo-Saxon countries from Canada and Britain, as well as from the European Union, and demand that they stop cooperating with Russia.

Ozyrov pointed to US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s statement that discussed anti-Russian sanctions in all the countries she visited during her African tour, and also noted her threats to respond quickly and decisively to the violation of these sanctions.

“This is yet another example of blackmail, explicit dictates and threats that are unacceptable in the modern world,” Ozerov added.

The first Russian-African summit was held in October 2019 in Sochi. The second summit is scheduled for July 2023 in St. Petersburg.

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