Africa and Burkina Faso can only benefit from promoting a more multipolar vision of the world, the Burkinabe Foreign Minister, Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré told Sputnik Africa.
Moscow and Ouagadougou are cooperating to create a more multipolar world where Africa can realize its full potential, the top diplomat said.
"Multipolarity presupposes that we recognize the capacity of other countries to rise on the international scene [...] It is inconceivable that we are in a world of more than 200 countries, with more than 7 billion inhabitants, and that the monopoly is concentrated in the hands of a single country which constitutes the pole," he added.
This multipolarity will allow Burkina Faso to fully assert its sovereignty, by forging alliances as it sees fit, the minister noted, while Ouagadougou has just created the Alliance of Sahel States with its Malian and Nigerien neighbors.
In this perspective of emancipation, Burkina Faso has also chosen to develop its cooperation with Russia. The year of 2023 is "a great year" in this matter, Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré also stressed. Partnerships in the military and energy sectors are the most promising, according to him.
"The military cooperation with Russia is going perfectly well and the decisions that have been taken to manage the humanitarian situation, the donation of wheat announced by President Putin was immediately followed by effects, and we are currently loading the last trucks for Burkina Faso. The energy sector is shaping up with great hope," the minister said.
Political relations are also in good shape, he underlined. Burkinabe Interim President, Ibrahim Traore, earlier traveled to the Russian city of Saint Petersburg to meet his counterpart Vladimir Putin, during the Russia-Africa summit, in late July.