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The original summit was held in 2019, it was planned that subsequent summits were to alternate every two years between Russia and Africa, only no agreement was found for 2021, even if sporadic ‘announcements’ were made

The SMO changed everything - both sides are now aware of what is at stake – hence 2023 and in Russia

So Lavrov's comments on currency- in West/Central Africa the cfa is a burden, long recognised as such and the object of various feeble attempts at revolt

Suddenly the cfa seems a paper tiger – in his remarks about currency reform in Africa Lavrov carefully ignores the standard central bank ploys in play now for over a generation, which aim to replicate an impoverished version of an euro without a Germany ; the latest of which, PAPSS, is operated by a New York ‘global payments’ company, talked up by the usual suspects, from Carnegie to Blair

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