Working Paper No. 89 / 2024
Working Paper No. 89 / 2024
North Africa has demonstrated steady regional economic growth and certain development potential, despite the various problems and challenges facing North African states. This Working Paper analyzes the financial and economic development dynamics of North African countries and examines in detail the prospects for developing cooperation between Russia and the countries of the region.
Financial and Economic Development Dynamics of North African...
An innovative Chinese-Russian strategic approach to food security would be an important dimension of the emerging world order that both Moscow and Beijing are trying to promote
When Russian President Vladimir Putin was on his way to Beijing earlier this month, many observers predicted that he would return ...
... Autonomous Region of China.
Among the priority issues announced by the U.S. Permanent Representative are reforming the UN Security Council and other institutions, the way the Council’s permanent members resort to their veto powers, as well as holding a food security summit on the sidelines of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, where U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to participate as a co-chair.
Andrey Kortunov:
Time for a Consolidated Russian-Chinese Approach to Modernize and Reform UN
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On July 1, 2022, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), in partnership with The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, held the seventh online international high-level expert round table, dedicated to the trends in the development of world politics in the context of acute recent crises
On July 1, 2022, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), in partnership with The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University...
... the food situation in the world and possible agreements regarding the supply of Russian and Ukrainian grain, as well as Russian and Belarusian fertilizers to world markets. The role of international organizations (FAO, G20, BRICS) in ensuring global food security was also discussed. Leading international researchers from China, the USA, Great Britain, Ukraine, and Russia took part in the event. Russian side was represented at the event by Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General.
On May 23, 2022, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), in partnership with The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, held the fourth online international high-level expert round table, dedicated to the trends in the development of world politics in the context of acute recent crises
On May 23, 2022, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), in partnership with The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University...
... Egypt on key Syria-related issues.
The first session was devoted to the prospects for political settlement in Syria in the context of regional and global configuration. The experts paid special attention to the impact of the conflict in Ukraine on the food security of Syria and other countries of the Middle East. During the second session, the participants discussed the humanitarian problems in Syria, as well as the ways to solve them.
On the part of the RIAC, the workshop was attended by: Andrey Kortunov,...
On April 20, 2022, RIAC in cooperation with Africa Business Initiative held a webinar on the consequences of Russia-Ukraine conflict for African food security
On April 20, 2022, RIAC in cooperation with Africa Business Initiative held a webinar on the consequences of Russia-Ukraine conflict for African food security.
The webinar focused on three key food security issues arising from the Russian-Ukrainian ...
... 2008 Great Recession. It would be pertinent to quote
Gilbert Houghbo
, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, who was warning about a possible hike in food prices as well as about a famine—something, he argues, threatens food security globally, bolstering geopolitical tensions.
The Arab nations of the Middle East and North Africa end up in the risk group, particularly those having vast populations (
Egypt
– 106 million people;
Algeria
and
Sudan
– 45 million people ...
According to the expert, statistics from recent years show that annual assistance to Afghanistan amounts to about five billion US dollars, but this sum is not enough to satisfy the needs of the country’s population
Afghanistan may face a food crisis under the Taliban (outlawed in Russia) rule because this movement is under sanctions of both individual states and the United Nations, Andrei Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, told TASS on Monday.
"A food...
