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📰 Aide to the President of Russia for Foreign Policy Yuri Ushakov's interview with TASS (March 5, 2024)
Key talking points:
💬 Cooperation within #BRICS is undoubtedly one of the key features of Russia's long-term foreign policy.
• Russia, as the current president of the organization, has a special responsibility to ensure the fastest and smoothest integration of the new members into the operation of all BRICS mechanisms. This is undoubtedly a cornerstone and high priority task of our Presidency.
• In the relatively short period of its existence, the BRICS association has rapidly developed and transformed into an extensive multi-level mechanism of interaction on a wide range of issues on the global agenda.
🌐 Many perceive BRICS as a prototype of multipolarity, a structure uniting the Global South and East on the principles of equality, sovereignty and mutual respect.
• Support for the principles of multipolarity and a greater role of developing countries in global governance, as well as the fundamental values of the BRICS group, such as the spirit of equality, mutual respect, openness, inclusiveness and constructive cooperation, is an indispensable condition [for joining BRICS].
• We see increasing the role of BRICS counties in the international currency and financial system as a specific task for this year. <...> We believe that creating an independent BRICS payment system is an important goal for the future.
• There has never been a military aspect to cooperation within our group. <...> BRICS does not have plans to build such cooperation, including military drills.
☝️ Russia has never set BRICS in opposition to other international platforms, be it the Group of 20 or the Group of Seven. We believe that the association is unique.
• The recipe for BRICS’ attractiveness and success is based on the absence of a confrontational or “hidden” agenda. I will repeat that it brings together like-minded countries.
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Key talking points:
💬 Cooperation within #BRICS is undoubtedly one of the key features of Russia's long-term foreign policy.
• Russia, as the current president of the organization, has a special responsibility to ensure the fastest and smoothest integration of the new members into the operation of all BRICS mechanisms. This is undoubtedly a cornerstone and high priority task of our Presidency.
• In the relatively short period of its existence, the BRICS association has rapidly developed and transformed into an extensive multi-level mechanism of interaction on a wide range of issues on the global agenda.
🌐 Many perceive BRICS as a prototype of multipolarity, a structure uniting the Global South and East on the principles of equality, sovereignty and mutual respect.
• Support for the principles of multipolarity and a greater role of developing countries in global governance, as well as the fundamental values of the BRICS group, such as the spirit of equality, mutual respect, openness, inclusiveness and constructive cooperation, is an indispensable condition [for joining BRICS].
• We see increasing the role of BRICS counties in the international currency and financial system as a specific task for this year. <...> We believe that creating an independent BRICS payment system is an important goal for the future.
• There has never been a military aspect to cooperation within our group. <...> BRICS does not have plans to build such cooperation, including military drills.
☝️ Russia has never set BRICS in opposition to other international platforms, be it the Group of 20 or the Group of Seven. We believe that the association is unique.
• The recipe for BRICS’ attractiveness and success is based on the absence of a confrontational or “hidden” agenda. I will repeat that it brings together like-minded countries.
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#Announcement
⚡️ The deadline for submitting applications for the BRICS Solutions Awards competition has been extended until August 30, 2024.
Within the framework of the BRICS Solutions Awards contest, the participants are encouraged to share their projects and ideas under the following eight categories:
• New Industry and Energy;
• Biotechnology and National Health;
• Sky, Space and Communication Technologies;
• Artificial Intelligence and Digital Services;
• Climate and Environmental Technologies;
• Platforms and End-to-End Solutions for Government and Public Administration;
• Competences and Staff Development;
• Cognitive Technologies and Creative Economy.
Applications have already been received from 🇮🇳 India, 🇧🇷 Brazil, 🇿🇦 South Africa, 🇨🇳 China, 🇪🇬 Egypt and 🇪🇹 Ethiopia. Most of the projects were received in the nomination "New Industry and Energy", in the second place — "Platforms and integrated solutions for government and public administration".
Applications will be accepted at the official website. The BRICS Solutions Awards will conclude with a solemn award ceremony at the BRICS Business Forum in Moscow in October 2024.
📖 For reference:
The BRICS Solutions Awards was first held in 2020 during Russia's BRICS Chairmanship at the initiative of the Autonomous Nonprofit Organization "Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects" and with the support of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Since then, it has been held every year in a BRICS chairing country. In 2021 and 2022 India and China hosted the event.
#BRICS
⚡️ The deadline for submitting applications for the BRICS Solutions Awards competition has been extended until August 30, 2024.
Within the framework of the BRICS Solutions Awards contest, the participants are encouraged to share their projects and ideas under the following eight categories:
• New Industry and Energy;
• Biotechnology and National Health;
• Sky, Space and Communication Technologies;
• Artificial Intelligence and Digital Services;
• Climate and Environmental Technologies;
• Platforms and End-to-End Solutions for Government and Public Administration;
• Competences and Staff Development;
• Cognitive Technologies and Creative Economy.
Applications have already been received from 🇮🇳 India, 🇧🇷 Brazil, 🇿🇦 South Africa, 🇨🇳 China, 🇪🇬 Egypt and 🇪🇹 Ethiopia. Most of the projects were received in the nomination "New Industry and Energy", in the second place — "Platforms and integrated solutions for government and public administration".
Applications will be accepted at the official website. The BRICS Solutions Awards will conclude with a solemn award ceremony at the BRICS Business Forum in Moscow in October 2024.
📖 For reference:
The BRICS Solutions Awards was first held in 2020 during Russia's BRICS Chairmanship at the initiative of the Autonomous Nonprofit Organization "Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects" and with the support of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Since then, it has been held every year in a BRICS chairing country. In 2021 and 2022 India and China hosted the event.
#BRICS
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🇷🇺🇮🇷 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran Abbas Araghchi hold a meeting on the sidelines of the XVII #BRICS Summit
📍 Rio de Janeiro, July 6
#RussiaIran
📍 Rio de Janeiro, July 6
#RussiaIran
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