The gathering in Kazan final month was one of the crucial vital latest worldwide occasions, Sergey Lavrov has stated
The latest BRICS Summit in Kazan confirmed the futility of Western makes an attempt to isolate Russia, and proved that many nations are sad with the US waging “sanctions wars,” Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov has stated.
Delegations from 35 nations of Asia, Africa, the Center East, Europe and Latin America, in addition to representatives from the UN and different organizations, arrived in Russia final month for the annual BRICS Summit. It was the primary to be held for the reason that group’s growth earlier this yr, when Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates formally turned members, becoming a member of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
“The sixteenth BRICS Summit in Kazan was, with out exaggeration, one of the crucial vital worldwide occasions not solely this yr, however in latest occasions,” Lavrov stated on Tuesday in an interview with Rossiya Segodnya information company.
In response to the international minister, members felt it was held in an environment of “friendship, openness and mutual respect.” Requested about summit outcomes and the group’s plans, Lavrov stated they had been clearly mirrored within the Kazan Declaration, adopted on the gathering.
“Amongst different issues, it clearly units out the dedication of the taking part nations to advertise constructive adjustments within the international economic system and politics with the goal of making a extra simply and balanced world order, reform international governance establishments and successfully deal with international points,” he stated.
Lavrov additionally highlighted components of the declaration regarding adapting the worldwide monetary system to “trendy realities,” whereas rising the position of creating nations and inspiring nearer interbank cooperation.
This includes boosting the share of nationwide currencies in mutual settlements and creating impartial cost platforms and insurance coverage mechanisms in BRICS, he stated.
All of those steps will finally result in the formation of a cost instrument that’s “not topic to exterior dangers,” Lavrov predicted, noting “elevated curiosity” in such a plan from non-Western states.
The Russian minister added that throughout the prolonged Outreach/BRICS Plus format session, the heads of delegations from nations of the International South “brazenly expressed indignation on the US authorities’ more and more robust line lately on utilizing the greenback as an instrument for waging sanction wars in opposition to these states whose insurance policies, for one purpose or one other, the People didn’t like.”
Requested about BRICS’ new ‘accomplice nation’ standing, Lavrov stated that the standards had been permitted in Kazan, and work is underway on the difficulty, with outcomes anticipated earlier than the top of the yr.
Supply hyperlink
