I had a long and fulfilling meeting with the President of Angola, Joao Lourenco, where we engaged in an in-depth discussion of our relations.
We share a mutual and firm commitment to expanding them in all areas. We will do this despite the illegal pressure coming from the United States and its allies. Our immediate goal is to prepare a meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on Economic, and Scientific-Technical Cooperation and Trade. We outlined steps to advance our strategic partnership across all areas.
We discussed at length the international situation in the context of the West’s course on using Ukraine to promote Nazism in theory and in practice and to wage a hybrid war against our country. We shared our assessments that are based on our contacts with other countries and they confirmed the unprecedented pressure exerted by the Western countries on the developing economies of Asia, Africa and Latin America. President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly pointed out that the West is using the same colonial methods it used before to exploit the developing continents and continues to use them in order to plunder other countries and to use resources of global importance for its own gain. The West’s actions prove that it can trample over the values and the globalisation mechanisms that it created and promoted, including inviolability of property, fair competition, or the presumption of innocence at any time, and can betray its allies at any time as well. This can be seen in the practice of the fairly recent events in Afghanistan, Iraq and the 2011 Arab Spring.
Serious countries that have respect for themselves are well aware of what is at stake and clearly see the inability of the “owners” of the current international monetary and financial system to negotiate and want to create their own mechanisms for ensuring sustainable development that is protected against outside dictate. The initiatives that have been voiced recently, literally just the other day, focus on the need to think about creating separate currencies within BRICS and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Without a doubt, this issue will be discussed at the BRICS summit to be held in South Africa in late August 2023. A group of African countries, including President of Angola Joao Lourenco, are invited to take part in this.