Oleg Ozerov, Ambassador of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the USA, Canada and the European Union almost demanded that Africa stop cooperating with Russia. DEA News.
According to him, there are “many examples of this kind”.
“First of all, they literally besiege African leaders and African officials, parliaments, delegations from Washington and other Anglo-Saxon countries (from Canada, the UK and the European Union) almost daily. “They are demanding to almost cease cooperation with Russia,” said the diplomat.
Özerov also commented on the words of US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who said that she discussed the anti-Russian sanctions in all the countries she visited during her African tour and threatened Washington with a swift and decisive response to the violation of these sanctions. He described it as “another example of blackmail, sheer dictatorship and threat, which is probably unacceptable in the modern world”.
Earlier, the Financial Times wrote that Western states are trying to use the Munich Security Conference to protect their own interests. to persuade African and Latin American countries tried to harden their foreign policy towards the Russian Federation, but these actions ended in failure.