🗺️ The emergence of BRICS is therefore more than a sign of the Global South's discontent and resentment towards the old structure, which is already in shambles.

It shows the reality of our world that is now in transition.

Declared to be a non-Western organisation but not against the West, members of BRICS come from different continents with different political and social systems, different religions and cultural and historical backgrounds.

This, by itself, is a manifestation of the fact that the World Majority favours multilateralism. Those obsolete thoughts and theories aimed at instigating or rationalising aggressive foreign polices to protect the hegemony of the rich and powerful are thereby out of date, writes Nelson Wong, President of the Shanghai Centre for RimPac Strategic and International Studies, for the 21st Annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/crafting-a-structure-in-an-unstructured-world/

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🗣 Special session “US Elections: What Can the World Expect From America? Discussion of the preliminary results of the US presidential election” completed the third day of Valdai Club’s 21st Annual Meeting.

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🗣 Good morning! Today is the fourth day of Valdai Club’s 21st Annual Meeting “Lasting Peace on What Basis? Common Security and Equal Opportunities for Development in the 21st Century”.

📆 Programme for November 7, Thursday
 
09:30 – 11:00 — Open Discussion – The Valdai Conference Results (LIVE: Russian, English)

Plenary Session. Security for Each and Everyone. Together Into a New World (LIVE: Russian, English)

Links to the live broadcast of the sessions will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the website, X (formerly Twitter), VK, Telegram and Dzen. 

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🎥 LIVE: at 9:30 Moscow time (GMT+3) an open discussion, dedicated to Valdai Club’s 21st Annual Meeting results, starts. Watch the live broadcast:

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🗣 The fourth day of Valdai Club’s 21st Annual Meeting started with an open discussion dedicated to its results.

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🗣 Economy, Green Transition and US Elections. Day 3 of the Valdai Club Annual Meeting

On the third day of the 21st Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, there was one open session, three meetings of experts with representatives of Russian government bodies and a special session dedicated to the results of the US presidential election.

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🎥 21st Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club. Day 3

On November 6th, the 21st Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club “Lasting Peace on What Basis? Common Security and Equal Opportunities for Development in the 21st Century” continued. The third day’s agenda included one open session, three meetings of experts with representatives of Russian government bodies and a special session dedicated to the results of the US presidential election.

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🛡️ Global security

Global security entails measures and initiatives aimed at preventing threats and ensuring stability at the international level. The main aspects of global security are: military, economic, ecological, digital, social and humanitarian. What are the risks to global security and what steps are required to strengthen it, you can learn from our video infographic.

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🖐️ For quite a long time now, an opinion has been forming in scientific, expert and political circles about the increasing importance of a certain range of countries, which goes by different names: “developing”, “the Global South”, and “the rest”.

The term “Global Majority” introduced in the first year of the Special Military Operation (SVO) by Russian experts seems to be quite suitable, writes Ivan Safranchuk for the 21st Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/features-of-the-global-majority/

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🗺️ The notion of “World Majority” could be used as a synonym of “international plurality”, in contrast to the Western-manufactured notion of an “international community”.

The main gain of that terminological innovation would be to offer the conditions of possibility for the emergence of a post-Western order based on respect for diversity.

This is morally desirable, and practically possible, as BRICS has already demonstrated, writes Fabiano Mielniczuk for the 21st Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/the-global-majority-and-order-based-on-respect/

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🎥 LIVE: The live broadcast of the plenary session “Security for Each and Everyone. Together Into a New” within the framework of Valdai Club’s 21st Annual Meeting is starting.

Watch the live broadcast on the website:

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🗣 On November 7, 2024, the plenary session “Security for Each and Everyone. Together Into a New” within the framework of Valdai Club’s 21st Annual Meeting took place in Sochi, featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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🗣 Valdai Club Is a Unique Platform for Dialogue. Day 4 of the Annual Meeting

For twenty years now, the plenary session on the last day has been the culmination of the Annual Meetings of the Valdai Club. However, in recent years, a new tradition has emerged – an open discussion, during which all participants can share their opinions about the conference.

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🎥 21st Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club. Day 4

November 7th was the fourth day of the Valdai Club’s 21st Annual Meeting. On this day, an open discussion dedicated to the conference results, took place. In the evening, the plenary session “Security for Each and Everyone. Together Into a New” attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, was held.

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🪙 Global changes in the system of international relations, the main examples of which are the movement towards multipolarity and the increase in the weight of developing countries in world economy and politics, have become one of the signs of the current historical moment.

This trend is reflected, among other things, in the increased interest of countries in organisations without a dominant leader such as BRICS, which already unites 10 states representing 45% of the world's population.

It seems that a turning point has come when the association has a chance to show its significance and effectiveness in terms of solving issues that do not have only an economic but also an ideological dimension for the countries of the world majority.

Problems in mutual settlements between Russia and China can be solved by introducing the BRICS Pay system. Based on blockchain technologies, it can become an analogue of SWIFT for transactions in national currencies.

If Russia and China are able to resolve current difficulties by becoming pioneers in the field of cross-border digital mutual settlements, the development of the world economy has a chance to change its vector, the weight of developing countries will increase significantly, and strategic sovereignty will acquire real, not declared outlines, write Natalya Pomozova and Artyom Semenov.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/cross-border-payments-in-a-multipolar-world/

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🌏 For the Russian Federation, cooperation with partners in the SCO in multilateral and bilateral formats is one of the international priorities enshrined in the current Foreign Policy Concept of 2023.

Moreover, this not only details using the SCO's potential to develop relations on the Eurasian continent, in particular, to form a broad integration circuit - the Greater Eurasian Partnership (Clause 54 of the FPC), but also to influence the international system by "facilitating the adaptation of the world order to the realities of a multipolar world" (Clause 19 of the FPC).

The SCO understands existing difficulties and is taking steps to systematise multilateral cooperation, developing common goals and objectives, as well as strengthen the mechanisms for their achievement by the organisation’s members, writes Sergey Mikhnevich. Read his articles:

🔹 ‘Globalise It’: The SCO and the Future of the Economic Agenda in the Organisation's Globalisation

🔹 The SCO and the Restart of the Trade System

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