BRICS 2024 gets underway with very positive vibe

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Strengthening Multilateralism for Fair Global Development and Security is the BRICS 2024 theme. “BRICS does not put itself into opposition to anyone,” Vladimir Putin has said. “This is an association of states that work together well, based on common values, a common vision of development and, most importantly, the principle of taking into account each other’s interests,” he said.

BRICS 2024

Strengthening Multilateralism for Fair Global Development and Security BRICS 2024 symbolic artwork by Rosa Yamamoto/FPM

BRICS Notes

When asked about possible endings to the military operation in Ukraine President Putin said he was open to discussions continuing the draft cease-fire agreements reached in Istanbul in April 2022 that should have been carried to fruition instead of being blocked by Zelenskyy’s puppet masters in Washington.

The Brazil delegation will not include Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva who has suffered a head injury and was advised by his medical care givers not to travel.

On the first day of the summit, RF President Vladimir Putin conducted meetings with New Bank President, Dilma Rousseff, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

Delegations from the member chapters attended a concert and an informal lunch for BRICS leaders.

The XVI BRICS Summit is taking place from October 22-24 in Kazan, under the Russian chairmanship, with the official theme “Strengthening Multilateralism for Fair Global Development and Security.”

 


Vladimir Putin greets Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Photo: Grigory Sysoev, brics-russia2024.ru Host Photo Agency. Image is cropped and enlarged. Art, cropping, enhancement by Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective-Magazine

“We pay special attention to attention to the expansion of friendly relations with Egypt, a long-standing and reliable partner of Russia. Last year, we celebrated the 80th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between our countries,” said Vladimir Putin in his greeting of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

“Multifaceted bilateral cooperation is based on the Treaty on Comprehensive Partnership and Strategic Cooperation. We are moving forward at a steady pace in the trade and economic sphere. Egypt accounts for about a third of all trade turnover between Russia and Africa. In 2023, the growth was 16.4 percent, and this year the growth continues, and even more so faster than in the past,” said the Russian Federation President.


Chinese President Xi Jinping. Photo: Kristina Kormilitsyna, brics-russia2024.ru Host Photo Agency. Image is cropped and enlarged. Art, cropping, enhancement by Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective-Magazine

A large delegation from China accompanies President Xi Jinping and planned multiple follow-on meetings between officials of Russia and China are expected to run through the summit and beyond. Clearly, China’s officials are serious about the importance of BRICS and the potential for new multilateralism. China is the largest economic member of the BRICS family.

China Delegation

CAI Qi – Head of the Chancellery of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China

VAN I – Head of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Committee Central Committee of the Communist Party, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China

JIANG Jinquan – Head of the Office of the Political Affairs Commission Studies of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Republic

ZHENG Shanjie – Chairman of the State Committee of the People’s Republic of China of the Republic for Development and Reform

Fallow deer Foan – Minister of Finance of the People’s Republic of China

VAN Wentao – Minister of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China

PAN Gongsheng – Governor of the People’s Bank of China

MUM Zhaoxu – Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China Republic

ZHANG Hanhui – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China of the Republic in the Russian Federation

KUN Shaoxun – Deputy Head of the Central Committee Office Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China

ZHOU Hongxu – Head of the Central Security Administration of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China

HAN Shimin – Deputy Head of the Office of the Central Committee Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China

LÜ Luhua – Assistant to the President of the People’s Republic of China

HUA Chunying – Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China of the Republic, Director of the Department of Information, Mass Communications and Public Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China Republic

MIAO Deyu – Assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China

LIU Binh – Director of the Department of Europe and Central Asia of the Ministry of the People’s Republic of China

HOON Lei – Director of the Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China

WHETHER Xiaohua – Head of the Department of the Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China for Foreign Affairs

JIANG Peng is the head of the department of the office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China for Foreign Affairs

CHENG Ikun – Deputy Director of the Europe and Central Asia Department Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China

JU Jia – Deputy Director of the Department of Information, Mass Communications and Public Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China Republic

Russian Officials meetings with China Delegation

LAVROV Sergei Viktorovich – Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

MANTUROV Denis Valentinovich – First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

NOVAK Alexander Valentinovich – Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Federation

OVERCHUK Alexey Logvinovich – Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Federation

ORESHKIN Maxim Stanislavovich, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office; of the Russian Federation, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation on financial and economic cooperation with the states BRICS and Interaction with the New Development Bank

SANDS Dmitry Sergeyevich, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office; of the Russian Federation – Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation

USHAKOV Yury Viktorovich, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

LOOT Oksana Nikolaevna, Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation;

RESHETNIKOV Maxim Gennadyevich, Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation;

SILUANOV Anton Siluanov, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation;

STAROVOIT Roman Vladimirovich – Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation

NABIULLINA Elvira Nabiullina, Governor of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. Federation

SHUGAEV Dmitry Evgenievich – Director of the Federal Service on military-technical cooperation

MINNIKHANOV Rustam Nurgalievich, Head of the Republic of Tatarstan

GURYEV Andrey Andreevich – Chairman of the Russian Association of Manufacturers Fertilizers

DMITRIEV Kirill Alexandrovich, General Director of the Russian Foundation for Direct Transactions, Investment

LIKHACHEV Alexey Evgenievich – General Director of the State Corporation for Nuclear Energy by Rosatom

SECHIN Igor Ivanovich – President, Chairman of the Management Board of Rosneft Oil Company

SHUVALOV Igor Ivanovich – Chairman of the Interbank Cooperation Mechanism BRICS, Chairman of the State Development Corporation VEB.RF, Member of the Business Council of the Russian Federation of the BRICS Council

Narendra Modi and Vladimir-Putin greet. Photo is live video capture. Art, cropping, enhancement by Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective-Magazine

President Putin welcomed Narendra Modi with a warm, friendly embrace.

As he greeted the delegation from India, Mr. Putin said “Allow me to warmly welcome you all to Russia, this time to Kazan. This is one of our historical, wonderful cities in the Volga region.

“I warmly recall your visit to Moscow in July and your fruitful talks with you. We regularly exchange information by phone. I am grateful that you responded to our invitation and came personally to Kazan, to the BRICS summit.

“Today we will take part in the opening ceremony together Summit. Then there will be communication between the leaders at dinner. And that’s how we begin our work.

“In Kazan, we must make a number of important decisions, aimed at further improving the activities of the association and strengthening multifaceted cooperation within its framework. And we really appreciate our I mean that our states were at the origins of the association.

“Russian Indian relations are of a special nature privileged strategic partnership and continue to actively develop. Cooperation between legislative bodies is being strengthened. Our The foreign ministers are in constant contact.

“The trade turnover is in good condition. And another The meeting of the intergovernmental commission is scheduled for November 12 in New Delhi.”

Meeting with President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin. Photo: Stanislav Krasilnikov, host photo agency brics-russia2024.ru. Image is cropped and enlarged. Art, cropping, enhancement by Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective-Magazine

Xi Jinping greets Vladimir Putin [translated]:

Dear President, my dear old friend!

I am very glad for your invitation to come to the ancient city of Kazan for the XVI summit BRICS. This is also our third meeting since the beginning of this year.

BRICS Summit is held in Kazan, I learned a lot about this city. And I know that this summit is of great importance. I learned that 400 years ago, the Great the tea road, which connected our countries, also passed through Kazan. And through this way, Chinese Wuyishan tea was taken to Russia.

At the beginning of the current We exchanged congratulations on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relations. Over the past decades, Sino-Russian relations, having withstood the The challenges of the changing international situation have come a long way and have become unprecedented. We have entered the right path of building relations between the great powers on the principles of non-alignment, non-confrontation and non-targeting of third parties.

In a new era, Mr President, you and I always pay special attention Sino-Russian relations and keep them under personal control.

Both countries are committed to the spirit of eternal good-neighbourliness and friendship, comprehensive strategic interaction and mutually beneficial cooperation, constantly strengthen and expand multifaceted strategic interaction and practical cooperation in all spheres and thus give a powerful impetus to national revitalization and modernization, make a major contribution to the well-being of the of the population of the two countries and the protection of international justice.

In the conditions of of tectonic transformation unprecedented in centuries of tectonic transformation, the international situation is going through serious changes and upheavals. But it can’t shake mine conviction in the inviolability of the strategic choice of the two countries in favor of a firm mutual support, the inviolability of the deep centuries-old friendship between our countries and the inviolability of the sense of duty of China and Russia as great powers.

BRICS, perhaps, one of the most important cooperation platforms for the consolidation of a wide range of developing world and emerging markets. He speaks system-forming factor in the formation of an equal, orderly multipolarity and inclusive economic globalization for all.

Opening tomorrow the BRICS summit will be the first summit after the expansion of the association and will be to be of great importance for the promotion of cooperation among the greater BRICS. We are highly appreciate the tremendous work done by Russia within the framework of its chairmanship, and this greatly contributed to the successful start of the cooperation within the framework of the greater BRICS. We highly appreciate this.

Expect a detailed conversation with our BRICS colleagues, primarily with you, on the topic of further development of our association, which will allow not only to consolidate position, send a positive signal of solidarity and cooperation, but also expand large-scale strategic cooperation and practical cooperation within the framework of the association, thereby opening up additional opportunities for countries in the Global South and to contribute more to building communities with a shared future for mankind.

Thank you.

Chinese President Xi Jinping. Photo: Stanislav Krasilnikov, host photo agency brics-russia2024.ru