Anton Kobyakov, presidential advisor to Vladimir Putin and the executive secretary for holding events within the Russia-Africa format, welcomed signs of intelligent life in the West, measured in terms of support and cooperation with peaceful economic projects of the BRICS. The occasion was an extended question by an EIR journalist, Helen Borodina, at Kobyakov’s press conference following the two-day Ministerial Conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum in Sochi. Borodina had had an earlier exchange with Kobyakov at the Oct. 22-24 BRICS Summit in Kazan.
Borodina: Mr. Kobyakov, after the press conference at the BRICS summit, I asked you if you would support the International Peace Coalition in the U.S., you said you have not heard about it but promised to look into it.... The International Peace Coalition was created by our colleagues in the U.S., Schiller Institute and the LaRouche movement, in the U.S. and Europe. They are Western fighters for the new paradigm of humanity’s development, against neocolonialism, they stand for a new, multipolar world; they closely work with BRICS countries, and in France we have an African Bureau. I would like to know your opinion: Could this Peace Coalition and the African Bureau in France, even though these are Western countries, somehow collaborate with Russia by some avenues, and would such collaboration be, in your opinion, beneficial? What do you think? Thank you.
Kobyakov: It’s good to have such a positive perception. Now we have to wait for the same kind of statement from Trump. As you’re telling me about the movement in the U.S., and the followers of the same movement in France, are bent towards BRICS, this is something new. But it is interesting. If you are… which news agency do you represent?
