🤝 At the BRICS Plus meeting, Putin invited all interested countries to develop the North-South Transport Corridor and Northern Sea Route

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🌍🌍🌍 Xi Jinping calls on BRICS members to play leading role in reforming global economic governance system

In addition to members of the group, the meeting in the outreach/BRICS+ format is also attended by delegations from various countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Leaders from CIS countries, as well as representatives of international organizations such as the UN, are also in attendance.

Purple is the most popular color for ties among the foreign delegation heads today. It’s believed that purple symbolizes a person's confidence, so maybe it’s not a coincidence.

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🗣UN lacks tools to put out the fire of war in the Middle East - Pezeshkian

President of Iran urges BRICS to build a world without 'sanctions, wars, genocide'

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🇷🇺🇨🇳Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are actively discussing something during the meeting of the XVI BRICS summit in the "outreach"/"BRICS plus" format

🤝 At the end, the leaders exchanged handshakes.

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❗️The lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, has ratified the Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the Russian Federation and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

According to the document, both parties will continuously maintain and develop comprehensive strategic partnership relations, taking into account the laws of their respective countries and their international obligations.

These relations are based on the principles of mutual respect for state sovereignty and territorial integrity, non-interference in internal affairs, equality, and other principles of international law concerning friendly relations and cooperation between states.

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🌍🌍🌍 Russia's Isolation?

36 countries united around the table in Russia's Kazan attending the Outreach/BRICS Plus meeting:

🇷🇺Russia
🇧🇷Brazil
🇨🇳China
🇪🇬Egypt
🇪🇹Ethiopia
🇮🇳India
🇮🇷Iran
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
🇿🇦South Africa
🇦🇪UAE
🇦🇲Armenia
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
🇧🇭Bahrain
🇧🇩Bangladesh
🇧🇾Belarus
🇧🇴Bolivia
🇨🇬Congo
🇨🇺Cuba
🇮🇩Indonesia
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan
🇱🇦Laos
🇲🇾Malaysia
🇲🇷Mauritania
🇲🇳Mongolia
🇳🇮Nicaragua
🇵🇸Palestine
🇷🇸Serbia
🇱🇰Sri Lanka
🇹🇯Tajikistan
🇹🇭Thailand
🇹🇷Turkiye
🇹🇲Turkmenistan
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
🇻🇪Venezuela
🇻🇳Vietnam

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🌍🌍🌍 BRICS is an organization of the future—Lukashenko

''BRICS' potential could bring an end to the history of domination of the West, which proved its unworthiness of bearing the responsibility for the civilized development of international relations,'' the Belarusian president Alexander Lukasenko said.

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❗️Ukrainian losses in Russia’s Battlegroup Yug combat zone came up to 785 militants

🇷🇺🪖More statements from the Russian Defense Ministry's daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:

◻️ Russia's Battlegroup Sever attacked the formations of four Ukrainian brigades near Lipetsk, Volchansk, and Okhrimovka in the Kharkov direction.

◻️ Russia's Battlegroup Zapad has improved its tactical position. The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces totaled up to 490 soldiers, a tank and an armored vehicle have been destroyed.

◻️ Russia's Battlegroup Vostok repelled one counterattack, enemy lost up to 100 militants.

◻️ Ukrainians lost 465 soldiers and two American M113 armoured personnel carriers in the Russia's Battlegroup Tsentr combat zone.

◻️ Ukrainians lost up to 65 troops and an ammunition depot in Russia's Battlegroup Dnepr area of responsibility.

◻️ Russian air defenses hit six HIMARS missiles and shot down 77 enemy drones.

◻️ Russian Armed Forces have attacked the airfield infrastructure, personnel and equipment of the Ukrainian armed forces in 139 areas.

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🌍🌍🌍 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan bid a warm farewell to Russian President Vladimir Putin after his speech.

Erdogan concludes his visit to the summit early in the wake of the terrorist attack in Ankara.

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🌍🌍🌍 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed hope that Palestine will be accepted into BRICS in the near future

"We emphasize our desire for the State of Palestine to be accepted into the BRICS union in the near future," Abbas said at the final meeting of the BRICS summit in the BRICS+ and outreach format in Russia's Kazan.

Palestine wants to strengthen its partnership with BRICS and participate in the group's events and act in the spirit of unification, Abbas added.

"The BRICS countries have come to represent a decisive and influential weight in setting the norms of international peace and security," Abbas added.

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❗️❗️❗️ Serbia’s Minister: Serbian economic engagement with BRICS to surge upward

In the next 5 to 10 years, the “vector of Serbia's economic policy engagement with the BRICS countries will continue to surge upward,” Nenad Popovic, Serbian Minister of International Economic Cooperation, told Sputnik on the sidelines of the 2024 BRICS Summit.

He singled out Serbia’s free trade agreements with China and Egypt, new economic agenda with countries of Africa and the Middle East.

“We have unequivocally good relations with all the BRICS countries. China and Russia are our strategic partners… [Serbia] is simply obligated to work together with all BRICS countries because this is a very mutually beneficial cooperation.”

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❗️"If the West has started using income from Russia's frozen reserves, Moscow will similarly use the frozen assets of unfriendly companies," said Anton Siluanov, Minister of Finance of Russia.

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🌍🌍🌍 Putin: 'Fist right' is now cultivated in global affairs, but BRICS advocates the improving status of international law.

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❗️❗️❗️ Big fan of BRICS: Serbia favors cooperation with BRICS over stifling political agenda

It is better to cooperate with BRICS countries than “have a political agenda that doesn’t give freedom and independence,” Nenad Popovic, Serbian Minister of International Economic Cooperation, told Sputnik on the sidelines of the 2024 BRICS Summit.

“Serbia welcomes the establishment of criteria for BRICS partner states. It seems to me that this is precisely the basis for the economic development of any country. And the economic indicators of the BRICS countries are really off the charts currently,” he said.

”Personally, I am a big fan of BRICS,” Popovic noted.

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❗️❗️❗️Serbia’s Minister on BRICS: fantastic result in a short period of time

The “future lies with BRICS countries,” Nenad Popovic, Serbian Minister of International Economic Cooperation, told Sputnik on the sidelines of the 2024 BRICS Summit.

“BRICS countries are bigger economically than the G7 countries. Russia, despite the sanctions, has achieved such impressive economic results that I think this should be studied in economic universities around the world for the next 50-60 years,” he said.

“I want to congratulate the BRICS countries on the truly fantastic result they have achieved in the very short period of time since the group’s creation,” Popovic concluded.

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🌍🌍🌍 PUTIN'S PRESS CONFERENCE COMING UP

Russian President Vladimir Putin will sum up the results of the 16th BRICS Summit.

Don't miss it! Watch the press conference via Sputnik

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"Polish diplomats should prepare themselves"

This was the comment by Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova to Sputnik regarding Poland's demand for Russian diplomats to leave the country due to the closure of the Consulate General in Poznan.

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🇺🇳UN chief calls for accelerating the reform of the international outdated, ineffective and unfair financial architecture

"I am grateful to participate in the 16th BRIC Summit. Collectively, your countries represent nearly half of the world's population. And I salute your valuable commitment and support for multilateralism and international problem solving as clearly reflected in your team this year... It takes a community of nations working as one global family to address global challenges," United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at the final meeting of the BRICS summit in the BRICS+ and outreach format in Russia's Kazan.

According to him, today's international financial system does not provide many vulnerable countries with the safety net or level of support they need.

Guterres also stressed the need for strengthening and updating the machinery of peace, as well as addressing the weaponization of outer space and use of lethal autonomous weapons.

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🗣President Putin responds to UN Chief Guterres on latter's words that everyone should live as one big family

“Your Excellency, Secretary General, that's how we live. In families, unfortunately, there are disagreements, scandals, division of property, even reaching a fight,” noted Putin.

The Russian President noted that the BRICS goal is to create a necessary mechanisms for interaction, to create conducive conditions in our common home.

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👉🏻👈🏻 It's not forbidden, we just can't – Western media looks for an excuse not to speak to Sputnik at BRICS summit

Western journalists from the UK, Italy and Germany attended Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press conference at the BRICS summit to see for themselves out how ‘isolated’ he was.

But they refused to talk to Sputnik, some said they were banned from contact with Russian media, at the same time others denied that.

"Sorry, we cannot speak. I have to approve all the contacts with my bosses in Italy, but it would be a policy issue,” the Italian correspondent said. “It is prohibited for us to contact with Russian media or to give any comments during the Summit."

A group of British journalists from Sky News said they could not talk to Russian media, either on or off the record.

Reporters from a German TV channel ZDF said "nothing is forbidden," but they just "couldn't" speak to Russian outlets.

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