"If you have abandoned resources and you keep them underneath the ground or on the surface of the ground, and then you are not utilizing them making use of them, then they are non-existent," he said on the sidelines of the SPIEF 2024.
"And then it deposes upon the needs also. Russia is in need of some raw materials and others. We are also in need of some raw materials. So it depends on exactly what we need from Russia in particular and what Russia needs from us in particular also," he underlined.
"[African countries] have the resources, but the world is so competitive, the world is so exploitive [...]. If you have the resources, no matter how big resources that you have, and you export them as raw materials, then those who have little resources and make use of them and apply technology to them, have a good outcome from the utilization of their resources," he said.
"They are also fighting for their existence as countries, their sovereignty as countries and the well-being of the people in their own country. So this is tripartite, some sort of conflict," Agar explained.
"When there is a fight, there is always a supplier. When there is a supplier, there is always either an interest or a fear. These are issues that actually amount to supplying weapons here and there. And there is also a policy behind it," Agar elaborated.