Kuleba’s second African tour should take place in summer, - MFA
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working on the organization of the second African tour of the head of Ukrainian diplomacy Dmytro Kuleba in the summer and the holding of the Ukraine-Africa summit.
This was stated by the special representative of Ukraine for the Middle East and Africa, Maksym Subh, in an interview with Ukrinform, Censor.NET reports.
"We are currently working to ensure that the minister's second African tour will take place in the summer and cover new countries on the African continent," said Subh.
He reminded that this year marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the African Union, and May 25 marks Africa Day.
"We would like Ukraine to join these events at a high level. The work is ongoing, because the preparation of the visits requires communication, sending official requests, and obtaining approvals," Subh explained.
He also said that the Ukraine-Africa conference is also being prepared, currently the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is defining its main topics and is constantly communicating with the Office of the President and relevant ministries on this issue.
"We communicate with scientific research institutes, agrarian academies, our exporters and see how many modern technologies Ukraine has, which no one in Africa knows about and to which it does not have access. Therefore, our goal is to build a bridge for the implementation of our technologies in Africa through such summits and visits," said Subh.
He informed that the Ukraine-Africa summit is planned to be held in Kyiv and the heads of states of the entire African continent will be invited to it.
"We know that a Russia-Africa summit is planned for July, and we call on African countries not to participate in it. In our opinion, it is immoral to be on the territory of an aggressor state at a time when the war against our country continues.
We would like African countries to boycott this event, at least on the part of their leaders, to demonstrate that Africa does not agree with what Russia is doing in Ukraine," Subh noted.
According to him, Ukraine has already received certain signals from some countries that they do not consider participating in this Russia-Africa conference in any way until Russia withdraws its troops and stops the war.
