Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the Republic of Zimbabwe Amon Murwira

On March 6, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Amon Murwira, now staying in Moscow on a working visit.

The foreign ministers discussed a range of issues of enhancing the traditionally friendly Russian-Zimbabwean relations still further. They reaffirmed the invariable commitment of Moscow and Harare to deepen trust-based political dialogue and closely coordinate their positions in addressing key international and regional issues at the UN and other international platforms. 

During their detailed discussion, they reviewed specific objectives of expanding and diversifying trade and economic and investment cooperation, streamlining the contractual and legal framework and implementing promising long-term projects in such areas as geological prospecting operations, developing mineral deposits, and projects in the field of energy, infrastructure, information and communication technologies. They outlined additional opportunities for expanded cultural, humanitarian and other collaboration. 

While exchanging opinions on the global and African agenda of mutual interest, the ministers focused on the issue of overhauling the UN Security Council, the situation in the Sahara-Sahel zone and the African Great Lakes Region. They underscored the importance of consolidated Moscow-Harare efforts towards forging a more equitable multipolar world order based on international law and the UN Charter. They noted coinciding approaches of both countries stating that there is no alternative to political and diplomatic methods for resolving crises in Africa. The Africans themselves should play a key role in this respect, with the international community assisting them. 

They discussed efforts to promote diverse Russia-Africa collaboration and emphasised their common commitment to completely implementing the results of the June 2023 Second Russia-Africa Summit in St Petersburg and the First Ministerial Conference of the November 2024 Russia-Africa Partnership Forum in Sochi.

Sergey Lavrov and Amon Murwira signed the Russia-Zimbabwe declaration on ways and methods for countering, mitigating, offsetting and compensating negative consequences of unilateral coercive measures.