The legacy of the Soviet era: the successful track record of the joint struggle for the decolonisation of the continent and the development of independent African states; the training of specialists at the Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University and other Soviet universities creates credibility that has survived even the long years of the hiatus in relations after the breakup of the Soviet. [...] With the 2019 Final Declaration outlining general principles for cooperation and serving its role at the beginning of the modern partnership, the second edition of the summit will need to produce takeaways that foresee a call to action for diverse target groups looking to work with Africa and also the mechanisms to do so. [...] URL: rossotrudnichestvo-otkryvaet-novye-tcentry-v-afrike For example, the second clause of the document established that Russia and Africa were to “hold annual political consultations between Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and African States acting as the present, former and future Presidencies of the African Union in. [...] For example, while the EU does not have a formalized follow-up format yet (although one is in the works and was actively discussed during the last summit in 2022), the European Union and African Union Commissions met in December of 2022, 9 months after the summit, to assess progress on plans made during the event.20 In addition, the TICAD adopted its own three-tier follow-up mechanism during the 4. [...] This included, for example, the exact number of PhD and Master’s scholarships to be provided to African students per annum (25 and 50, respectively), the number of vocational training centres to be opened in Africa (10), as well as the exact worth of lines of credit to be provided to African countries and institutions over the following 5 years (USD 5.4 bln).28 In comparison to the 2008 India-Afri.
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