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Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, June 28, 2023.
"I cannot fail to mention French President Emmanuel Macronās recent interview for the France 24 and FranceInfo television channels. He labelled Russia āthe sole colonial power of the 21st centuryā waging an imperialist war and being a destabilising influence in Africa. Thatās philosophy and the flight of thought on a truly breath-taking scale. I donāt know how they put this in French, but we talk in such cases about āoneās guilty conscience speaking.ā Perorations of this kind are inappropriate considering Franceās dubious role in Africa. The international community remembers the dirty pages of Parisās colonial history; France is still striving to exploit Africaās resources, masking its neo-colonial methods and schemes with false rhetoric and pretended concern for the Africansā welfare.
While posing as a champion of international law and the territorial integrity of states, France continues to illegally hold foreign lands.
Letās go through the list. Suffice it to recall Parisās stubborn disregard of the UN General Assembly decisions on the Union of the Comorosā rights to the island of Mayotte, the ongoing disputes with Madagascar over the Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean, and with Mauritius, over Tromelin Island. France refuses to acknowledge its responsibility for war crimes and the consequences of nuclear tests in Algeria, for the aggression against Libya in 2011 and the destruction of Libyan statehood, which gave rise to many of the current problems in the Sahara-Sahel region. Paris is trying to shift the blame for the consequences of their own criminal actions onto African states, as we see in Mali, for example.
Why donāt we ask the people living in African states who oppressed them throughout the long history of the continentās ācivilisedā development and continues to do so? Who was responsible for the ārobbery and outragesā President Macron described? Who plundered Africaās natural resources and removed its cultural treasures to their own museums? Ask them who has been genuinely helping them to grow, to strengthen their statehoods and economies, and ensure security. The Central African Republic, Mali and Burkina Faso have actually answered these questions by asking the French neo-colonisers to clear out. This is the reason for the hatred that seethes in the French Presidentās words."
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