German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has said it was in South Africa’s best interest to help end the war in Ukraine which had led to several crisis around the world including Africa.
“Russia’s war of aggression has not only brought terrible suffering to the people of Ukraine, it has also slashed a wound that reaches far beyond Europe, worsening the food and energy crises in many parts of the world and many parts of Africa. For this suffering to end, the war must end,” she said during her meeting South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor in Pretoria.
Meanwhile, Pandor said her country’s relationship with Germany was a “very important strategic partnership”.
Pandor addressed, among other things, cooperation at the economic level, in tourism and in the fight against climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We are faced with different and yet equally serious global challenges in Africa and elsewhere in the world,” she said, “including in Europe, where the war in Ukraine has had global ramifications.”
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