#Opinion
The Significance of Country X Joining BRICS
✍️ Article by Dr Iqbal Survè, Past Chairman of the BRICS Business Council and Co-Chairman of the BRICS Media Forum and the BRNN & Banthati Sekwala, Associate, BRICS+ Consultant Group
🌐 As the world shifts towards a multipolar reality, BRICS has emerged as a crucial platform for nations seeking to shape their own futures and redefine the global order.
Composed of some of the most powerful and dynamic emerging economies, BRICS stands as a beacon of inclusivity, cooperation, and fairness in an increasingly fractured world. The addition of new members to this prestigious group is not merely a formality - it represents a transformative moment in the evolution of global governance.
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The Significance of Country X Joining BRICS
✍️ Article by Dr Iqbal Survè, Past Chairman of the BRICS Business Council and Co-Chairman of the BRICS Media Forum and the BRNN & Banthati Sekwala, Associate, BRICS+ Consultant Group
🌐 As the world shifts towards a multipolar reality, BRICS has emerged as a crucial platform for nations seeking to shape their own futures and redefine the global order.
Composed of some of the most powerful and dynamic emerging economies, BRICS stands as a beacon of inclusivity, cooperation, and fairness in an increasingly fractured world. The addition of new members to this prestigious group is not merely a formality - it represents a transformative moment in the evolution of global governance.
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“Chak-chak diplomacy"
What is the dish foreign leaders were treated to as they arrived in Kazan?
👉 Served at festive occasions, including weddings, seasonal festivals, and other celebrations, chak-chak has earned its place in the hearts of millions of Russians as the food most associated with the Tatar people.
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📸 Pictures credit: Ilya Pitalev, Alexey Filippov, Ekaterina Chesnokova, Kirill Zykov / Photohost agency http://brics-russia2024.ru
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What is the dish foreign leaders were treated to as they arrived in Kazan?
👉 Served at festive occasions, including weddings, seasonal festivals, and other celebrations, chak-chak has earned its place in the hearts of millions of Russians as the food most associated with the Tatar people.
🔗 Read more
📸 Pictures credit: Ilya Pitalev, Alexey Filippov, Ekaterina Chesnokova, Kirill Zykov / Photohost agency http://brics-russia2024.ru
#brics #brics2024 #bricssummit
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📄 XVI BRICS Summit Kazan Declaration
📍 Kazan, Russia, October 23, 2024
Strengthening Multilateralism for Just Global Development and Security
✍️ We reiterate the importance of further enhancing BRICS solidarity and cooperation based on our mutual interests and key priorities and further strengthening our strategic partnership.
We reaffirm our commitment to the BRICS spirit of mutual respect and understanding, sovereign equality, solidarity, democracy, openness, inclusiveness, collaboration and consensus. As we build upon 16 years of BRICS Summits, we further commit ourselves to strengthening cooperation in the expanded BRICS under the three pillars:
✅ political and security;
✅ economic and financial;
✅ cultural and people-to-people cooperation;
and to enhancing our strategic partnership for the benefit of our people through the promotion of peace, a more representative, fairer international order, a reinvigorated and reformed multilateral system, sustainable development and inclusive growth.
We welcome the considerable interest by countries of the Global South in BRICS and we endorse the Modalities of BRICS Partner Country Category. We strongly believe that extending the BRICS partnership with EMDCs will further contribute to strengthening the spirit of solidarity and true international cooperation for the benefit of all. We commit to further promoting BRICS institutional development.
👉 Strengthening Multilateralism For A More Just And Democratic World Order
🇺🇳 We reaffirm our support for a comprehensive reform of the United Nations, including its Security Council, with a view to making it more democratic, representative, effective and efficient, and to increase the representation of developing countries in the Council’s memberships so that it can adequately respond to prevailing global challenges and support the legitimate aspirations of emerging and developing countries from Africa, Asia and Latin America, including BRICS countries, to play a greater role in international affairs, in particular in the United Nations, including its Security Council.
We recognise the crucial role of BRICS in the process of improving the international monetary and financial system (IMFS), with a view to making it more responsive to the needs of all countries.
👉 Enhancing cooperation for global and regional stability and security
We strongly support enhanced BRICS dialogue on policy and security issues.
We reiterate our unequivocal condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations whenever, wherever and by whomsoever committed.
👉 Fostering Economic and Financial Cooperation for Just Global Development
We underscore the need to reform the current international financial architecture to meet the global financial challenges including global economic governance to make the international financial architecture more inclusive and just.
👉 Strengthening people-to-people exchanges for social and economic development
#BRICS2024: We commend Russia's BRICS Chairship in 2024 and express our gratitude to the government and people of the Russian Federation for holding the XVI BRICS Summit in the city of Kazan.
#BRICS2025: We extend full support to Brazil for its BRICS Chairship in 2025 and the holding of the XVII BRICS Summit in Brazil.
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📍 Kazan, Russia, October 23, 2024
Strengthening Multilateralism for Just Global Development and Security
✍️ We reiterate the importance of further enhancing BRICS solidarity and cooperation based on our mutual interests and key priorities and further strengthening our strategic partnership.
We reaffirm our commitment to the BRICS spirit of mutual respect and understanding, sovereign equality, solidarity, democracy, openness, inclusiveness, collaboration and consensus. As we build upon 16 years of BRICS Summits, we further commit ourselves to strengthening cooperation in the expanded BRICS under the three pillars:
✅ political and security;
✅ economic and financial;
✅ cultural and people-to-people cooperation;
and to enhancing our strategic partnership for the benefit of our people through the promotion of peace, a more representative, fairer international order, a reinvigorated and reformed multilateral system, sustainable development and inclusive growth.
We welcome the considerable interest by countries of the Global South in BRICS and we endorse the Modalities of BRICS Partner Country Category. We strongly believe that extending the BRICS partnership with EMDCs will further contribute to strengthening the spirit of solidarity and true international cooperation for the benefit of all. We commit to further promoting BRICS institutional development.
👉 Strengthening Multilateralism For A More Just And Democratic World Order
🇺🇳 We reaffirm our support for a comprehensive reform of the United Nations, including its Security Council, with a view to making it more democratic, representative, effective and efficient, and to increase the representation of developing countries in the Council’s memberships so that it can adequately respond to prevailing global challenges and support the legitimate aspirations of emerging and developing countries from Africa, Asia and Latin America, including BRICS countries, to play a greater role in international affairs, in particular in the United Nations, including its Security Council.
We recognise the crucial role of BRICS in the process of improving the international monetary and financial system (IMFS), with a view to making it more responsive to the needs of all countries.
👉 Enhancing cooperation for global and regional stability and security
We strongly support enhanced BRICS dialogue on policy and security issues.
We reiterate our unequivocal condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations whenever, wherever and by whomsoever committed.
👉 Fostering Economic and Financial Cooperation for Just Global Development
We underscore the need to reform the current international financial architecture to meet the global financial challenges including global economic governance to make the international financial architecture more inclusive and just.
👉 Strengthening people-to-people exchanges for social and economic development
#BRICS2024: We commend Russia's BRICS Chairship in 2024 and express our gratitude to the government and people of the Russian Federation for holding the XVI BRICS Summit in the city of Kazan.
#BRICS2025: We extend full support to Brazil for its BRICS Chairship in 2025 and the holding of the XVII BRICS Summit in Brazil.
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The third and final day of the XVI BRICS Summit, which includes plenary sessions in the outreach/BRICS Plus format, kicked off in Kazan
💬 President #Putin: “This extended format, which has built up a good track record, provides an opportunity for a direct and open dialogue between members of the group and our sincere friends.”
☝️The meeting in Kazan will be attended by delegates from nearly 40 countries, including leaders of a number of CIS, Asian, African, Middle East, and Latin American countries, as well as heads of international organizations.
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💬 President #Putin: “This extended format, which has built up a good track record, provides an opportunity for a direct and open dialogue between members of the group and our sincere friends.”
☝️The meeting in Kazan will be attended by delegates from nearly 40 countries, including leaders of a number of CIS, Asian, African, Middle East, and Latin American countries, as well as heads of international organizations.
Picture credit: Sergey Bobylev / Photohost agency http://brics-russia2024.ru
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📹 The BRICS Summit Media Centre (Press Centre) is bustling: over 2000 journalists from 59 nations are covering this major international event on-site.
No discrimination, equal opportunity for all, even the Western mainstream media.
📹 The BRICS Summit Media Centre (Press Centre) is bustling: over 2000 journalists from 59 nations are covering this major international event on-site.
No discrimination, equal opportunity for all, even the Western mainstream media.
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🌐 BRICS boosts global trade: new routes & transport corridors shaping the future
👉The BRICS Summit recently held in Kazan, Russia, underscored the need to enhance transport connectivity to diversify mutual trade amid global geopolitical upheavals. What new routes could serve this purpose?
▪️ The International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) is a key element of the Eurasian Transport Network. The multi-modal (ship-rail-road) cost and time efficient transportation route is about 7,200 km long and connects Russian ports on the Baltic and Arctic seas with ports on the shores of the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean.
It was initiated by Russia, Iran, and India in September 2000. It was later joined by Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, Belarus, Oman, Syria, and Bulgaria (observer member). The INSTC has three major routes: Western (Russia-Azerbaijan-Iran), Central or Trans-Caspian (via the Russian ports of Astrakhan and Makhachkala), and Eastern (direct Russia-Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway connection).
Transit time for cargo is from 15 to 24 days, compared with the Suez Canal route of 45-60 days.
▪️ Northern Sea Route (NSR). It’s almost half the length of other sea routes from Europe to the Far East: the distance between St. Petersburg and Vladivostok via the Northern Sea Route is 14,280km, compared to 23,200km via the Suez Canal.
Once fully operational, the NSR is expected to allow the shipment of goods between Asia and Europe in as little as 19 days, 40% faster than shipments via the Suez Canal.
▪️ The East-West transport corridor aims to facilitate the export of goods from Russian ports to the borders of China, Mongolia, North Korea, and Kazakhstan. It is predominantly based on the Trans-Siberian Railway, about 10,000 km long.
▪️ Mongolia's Steppe Road initiative, conceived in 2014, is to include a 997 km long transnational expressway linking Russia and China. It also presupposes an expansion of the existing Trans-Mongolian Railway from Sukhbaatar in the north to Zamyn-Uud.
Picture by the Eurasian Development Bank
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👉The BRICS Summit recently held in Kazan, Russia, underscored the need to enhance transport connectivity to diversify mutual trade amid global geopolitical upheavals. What new routes could serve this purpose?
▪️ The International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) is a key element of the Eurasian Transport Network. The multi-modal (ship-rail-road) cost and time efficient transportation route is about 7,200 km long and connects Russian ports on the Baltic and Arctic seas with ports on the shores of the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean.
It was initiated by Russia, Iran, and India in September 2000. It was later joined by Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, Belarus, Oman, Syria, and Bulgaria (observer member). The INSTC has three major routes: Western (Russia-Azerbaijan-Iran), Central or Trans-Caspian (via the Russian ports of Astrakhan and Makhachkala), and Eastern (direct Russia-Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway connection).
Transit time for cargo is from 15 to 24 days, compared with the Suez Canal route of 45-60 days.
▪️ Northern Sea Route (NSR). It’s almost half the length of other sea routes from Europe to the Far East: the distance between St. Petersburg and Vladivostok via the Northern Sea Route is 14,280km, compared to 23,200km via the Suez Canal.
Once fully operational, the NSR is expected to allow the shipment of goods between Asia and Europe in as little as 19 days, 40% faster than shipments via the Suez Canal.
▪️ The East-West transport corridor aims to facilitate the export of goods from Russian ports to the borders of China, Mongolia, North Korea, and Kazakhstan. It is predominantly based on the Trans-Siberian Railway, about 10,000 km long.
▪️ Mongolia's Steppe Road initiative, conceived in 2014, is to include a 997 km long transnational expressway linking Russia and China. It also presupposes an expansion of the existing Trans-Mongolian Railway from Sukhbaatar in the north to Zamyn-Uud.
Picture by the Eurasian Development Bank
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🇷🇺🇿🇦Joint initiatives and interstate projects of entrepreneurs from the Russian Federation and the Republic of South Africa will receive media support in the BRICS+ countries. The Russia-South Africa Business Council and the TV BRICS International Media Network have signed a trilateral agreement on strategic cooperation.
🤝The agreements were cemented by Elias Monage, co-chairman of the South African part of the South Africa-Russia Business Council, Taras Shevchenko, executive director of the Russian part of the Russia-South Africa Business Council, and Ksenia Komissarova, Editor-in-Chief of the TV BRICS International Media Network.
The Russia-South Africa Business Council was established in 2006. Its activities are aimed at promoting the strengthening and expansion of trade and economic, scientific, technical and other business relations and contacts between Russian and South African enterprises and companies.
Source: TV BRICS
Picture credit: Business Russia
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🤝The agreements were cemented by Elias Monage, co-chairman of the South African part of the South Africa-Russia Business Council, Taras Shevchenko, executive director of the Russian part of the Russia-South Africa Business Council, and Ksenia Komissarova, Editor-in-Chief of the TV BRICS International Media Network.
The Russia-South Africa Business Council was established in 2006. Its activities are aimed at promoting the strengthening and expansion of trade and economic, scientific, technical and other business relations and contacts between Russian and South African enterprises and companies.
Source: TV BRICS
Picture credit: Business Russia
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🇿🇦 Dr Maurine Musie to represent South Africa at #BRICS Young Scientist Forum
By Weekend Argus
In a significant milestone for South African science, Dr Maurine Musie, a senior nursing lecturer at the University of Pretoria (UP), has been selected to represent South Africa at the #BRICS Young Scientist Forum in Russia from 18 to 22 November 2024.
Renowned for her expertise as a midwife specialist and emerging researcher within UP’s Department of Nursing Sciences, Dr Musie's credentials are impressive — she is the youngest individual to hold a PhD in the University’s Faculty of Health Sciences.
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Source: https://www.iol.co.za/
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By Weekend Argus
In a significant milestone for South African science, Dr Maurine Musie, a senior nursing lecturer at the University of Pretoria (UP), has been selected to represent South Africa at the #BRICS Young Scientist Forum in Russia from 18 to 22 November 2024.
Renowned for her expertise as a midwife specialist and emerging researcher within UP’s Department of Nursing Sciences, Dr Musie's credentials are impressive — she is the youngest individual to hold a PhD in the University’s Faculty of Health Sciences.
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Source: https://www.iol.co.za/
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The Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry hosted the international conference "The Future of Diplomacy and Diplomatic Services" as part of the Russian Federation's chairmanship of #BRICS.
🌐 The event was attended by delegations of diplomatic academies and institutes of the BRICS and BRICS+/outreach countries (a total of 19 states), heads of respected Russian think-tanks and representatives of diplomatic missions accredited in Moscow.
🤝 The participants discussed various aspects of the development of diplomacy and the diplomatic service, shared their experience in training of diplomats in the face of challenges dictated by the formation of a multipolar world. The speakers paid special attention to digital diplomacy, introduction of new technologies, and AI in diplomatic practice.
#BRICS #BRICS2024
🌐 The event was attended by delegations of diplomatic academies and institutes of the BRICS and BRICS+/outreach countries (a total of 19 states), heads of respected Russian think-tanks and representatives of diplomatic missions accredited in Moscow.
🤝 The participants discussed various aspects of the development of diplomacy and the diplomatic service, shared their experience in training of diplomats in the face of challenges dictated by the formation of a multipolar world. The speakers paid special attention to digital diplomacy, introduction of new technologies, and AI in diplomatic practice.
#BRICS #BRICS2024