MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/. Russia and African nations urged to abandon unilateral sanctions in all spheres of international relations and stressed that their use is unacceptable.

"We condemn use of unilateral forcing measures and strongly urge not to allow the use of any means of arbitrary or ungrounded discrimination, political pressure, open (unilateral enforcement measures) or hidden restricting barriers in trade, in markets, in logistics, finance, or the humanitarian aid provision area (such as cross-border carbon adjustment mechanisms) and stress that such measures are unacceptable," the joint statement of participants in the first ministerial conference of the Russia - Africa Partnership Forum reads.

The parties paid particular attention to unlawfulness of such restrictions because their "exterritorial use hinders global trade, adversely affects global chains of supply, causing instability on global food and energy markets and transport safety, including the civil aviation sphere."