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Russia and Burkina Faso have signed multiple bilateral documents in Moscow as both nations deepen partnerships that traverse energy, trade, and security.
Receiving Burkina Faso’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Karamoko Traoré, Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov said the instruments “will form the bedrock of our future strategic partnership.”
The allies have reached understandings at the highest levels, including those during President Ibrahim Traoré’s visit in May 2025, when Russia marked the 80th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War victory
Lavrov said a top priority was turning President Vladimir Putin and President Traoré’s economic vision into reality through the Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation.
Russia has appointed its Minister of Energy, Sergey Tsivilev, as the co-chair, with the expectation that the commission will start work immediately and make practical progress this year.
On counter-terrorism and responses to other threats in the Sahel region, Lavrov said the Moscow-Ouagadougou collaboration in defence and military-technical affairs “sets a positive example for others.”
The diplomat lauded their “exemplary cooperation” at the United Nations and expressed gratitude for Burkina Faso’s support of Russian initiatives aimed at strengthening international stability.
“Your balanced, objective, and principled stance on the Ukraine crisis has been especially valuable to us,” the minister told visiting Traoré.
Lavrov added that his country looks forward to the latest proposals on the Russia-Sahel Alliance, a security pact between Moscow and the military-led governments of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger.
Moscow, however, urged further coordination in the information space as it denounced the “information war waged by the West” against countries that pursue an independent and sovereign foreign policy.
