UN Secretary-General, antónio Guterres, delivered a lecture of the series held annually by the Nelson Mandela Foundation. In it, he said that the world retains the legacy of colonialism.Mr. Mandela was the first President of the Republic of South Africa; one of the most prominent activists in the struggle for human rights during the existence of apartheid. The lecture, organized by the Mandela Foundation, aims to promote dialogue by inviting eminent persons to discuss major international issues.”The global North, in particular, my own European continent, for centuries, imposed colonial rule, most parts of the global South through violence and coercion,” said Mr. Guterres. According to him, this has led to huge inequalities within and between countries, including the transatlantic slave trade and the apartheid regime in South Africa.”It left a legacy of economic and social injustice, crimes motivated by hatred and xenophobia, and institutional racism and the idea of white supremacy,” said UN Secretary-General.Earlier, Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held political consultations within the Russia—Africa. The political part of the discussion, Lavrov and his colleagues was dedicated to the history of the struggle against colonialism, as well as to the opposition of Russian and Western approaches to the solution of problems of the continent. The head of the foreign Ministry noted “an interesting pattern that those countries that are trying to rewrite the history of the Second world war, at the same time tend to forget the consequences that brought the colonial past of the African continent”.Read more in the publication “Kommersant” “Sergei Lavrov led the fight against neo-colonialism”.
