Gennady Gatilov, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, warned that the West is exploiting African countries through neo-colonialism to achieve its goals, which poses a threat to the continent.
“Unfortunately, the African continent still faces many challenges and threats, because Western repressive practices in our time have developed into what is known as neo-colonialism,” Gatilov said at a reception on the occasion of the organization of the second Russian-African Forum.
He added that the United States and its allies stubbornly cling to global hegemony based on a “set of rules” that apply to everyone but them.
“The collective West continues to exploit African countries to make profits for their companies, humiliate Africans and impose dictates on how to build their future,” he said.
Gatilov stressed that “Westerners are accustomed to seeing countries ‘blindly’ following them, and that is why they impose unilateral sanctions and openly threaten economic consequences to those who do not obey their dictate.”
“From our point of view, this is happening in the context of the West’s efforts to turn Africa into a “resource colony”, which gives the West easy access to cheap raw materials in exchange for controlled access to certain benefits of Western civilization,” he stressed. .
Russian officials have repeatedly affirmed that Russia and African countries are equal allies, emphasizing that relations between the two sides are based primarily on honesty, and a number of African leaders recently visited Russia, apparently ignoring attempts to isolate Russia. .
For its part, Moscow felt that Africa, with its pragmatic approach to Russia, had disappointed the hopes of the West, as vigorous attempts by the West to undermine Russian-African relations were made, but they were not successful.
Source: RIA Novosti
