african union, afroyu, union new partnership in the interests of africa development east african community union of arab magma common market of east and south africa intergovernmental development organization economic community of central african states economic community of west african countries and african export bank. this is a pretty solid list that speaks for itself. as for russia, our country is actively involved in regional integration projects implemented in the vast expanse of eurasia, perhaps the key of them is the eurasian economic union in which russia is involved together with neighboring countries that are friendly to us and which are aimed at creating common markets for goods, services, capital and labor, so we considered it important to discuss the prospects for cooperation between the eurasian union and african integration structures, and primarily with the african union, within which similar processes are developing and a consciously african continental free trade area, relevant ideas and proposals will be made by the head of the colleague of the eurasian economic commission, mr. myasnikova hmm, in turn , i would like to note that among the regional organizations, it is the african union that is russia's main partn

russian federation sergei viktorovich lavrov and chairman of the commission of the economic community of central african statesgilberto and eaten verisima sign the russian federation and the economic community of central african states of substantive relations and cooperation. the ceremony is over, let's proceed to statements for the media representatives of the president of the russian federation vladimir vladimirovich putin and the chairman of the african union, the president of the union of the amur islands, azalea assumani. dear sir ladies and gentlemen. i would like to unload the satisfaction that the main activities of the official program of the second summit. russia africa passed in a constructive friendly atmosphere and very effectively. this applies to the economic and humanitarian forum and the summit meetings themselves and special meetings with the leaders of african regional organizations. tonight, we will discuss the situation around ukraine with interested african countries and a number of bilateral contacts with african leaders scheduled our meeting with all the heads of state present in st .