... reflected by the motto of the Russian BRICS Year: “Strengthening Multilateralism for Equitable Global Development and Security”. We are planning to hold about 200 events of various levels, which will be hosted by over a dozen Russian cities.
During the Russia’s Chairship we intend to pay close attention to building up foreign policy coordination in the BRICS format, primarily within the key international platforms, as well as to further strengthening cooperation with the states of the Global South. We will continue to cooperate on combating terrorism, money laundering, corruption and the criminal assets recovery. We will make additional efforts to jointly seek common responses to information security threats and challenges, and to ...
... representative multilateral mechanism, and should endeavor to adapt the United Nations to the changes of the times through rational reforms, to restore its authority, to enhance its effectiveness and to regain its central role in international affairs.
China and Russia, either as a member of the global South or as its partner, should work together with the Global South in the international order building and global governance. The Global South is not an entity and is not clearly defined; it is internally diverse and does not have exactly the ...
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Today, the prospect of the equilibrium restored in global affairs relatively quickly looks practically insoluble: the main actors can no longer afford the luxury of a direct military confrontation with each other, while indirect confrontations (NATO – Russia, U.S. – China, Collective West – Global South) can last for a very long time without the ultimate winner revealed. The stakes for both sides in such confrontations are very high, while the options for escalation with impunity are numerous. It is also difficult to fix the updated rules ...
.... While Moscow is clearly dissatisfied with the existing world order, it seeks to change it and move it in a direction where Russian security and development interests would be ensured better.
At the regional level, striking examples of revisionist behaviour ... ... the local or global level, i.e. in one way or another they are trying to achieve its revision.
In general, the question of the Global South’s significance in world affairs is revisionist in nature, since it consists of revising and correcting the rules ...
... difficult to solve the territorial problem and there is no solution in sight that could be accepted by both sides, and the localized Russia-Ukrainian conflict is likely to continue for a long time, even if it does not escalate. Under this background, reducing ... ... narrowing its scope would therefore be a step towards the peace process.
The international community, especially countries of the Global South, should also do something as there should be more voices speaking out firmly against nuclear war, expressing their ...
... particular, there were calls for a ceasefire, ensuring Ukraine’s territorial integrity, and holding peace talks mediated by the UN.
On the one hand, such a diplomatic maneuver looks like an attempt by the U.S. and its European allies to expand the anti-Russian coalition, while on the other hand, countries of the Global South are eager to contribute to the process of general brainstorming on options for solving the problem. Moreover, judging by the proposals that have appeared in open sources, they support the development of a balanced and mutually acceptable ...
... expressing their desire to join the grouping. We are witnessing what may be termed the "BRICS Plus moment" in the evolution of the BRICS bloc as the summit's decisions on expansion are likely to impact not only the development trends across the Global South but also across the entire world economy.
One notable merit in China's determination to expand the current BRICS membership is that it reaffirms the principle of openness of the BRICS as a bloc, including its very core. This expansion in ...
... trip of Li suggests that Beijing and Moscow are consistently moving to a new model of such cooperation, distinctly different from the existing Western patterns, a model that might look quite appealing to a broad range of international actors in the Global South.
First, both Russia and China prioritize the principle of sovereignty as a foundation of their respective foreign and security policies. This principle sets clear constrains on the two states' willingness to participate to any political or military alliances that ...
The Global South looks at Norway with a hope to at least push the “un-pause button” of the Council
The resonance of the Russia-Ukraine conflict has sent geopolitical tremors in the Arctic that has, in a way, fractured regional ice. Suspension of the Arctic Council, Finland and Sweden’s decision to join North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the termination of all ...
... countries have voiced opposition to expelling Moscow from important multilateral international organizations and forums and continue to host high-level delegations from Moscow and sign new agreements on cooperation with their business partners from Russia. In sum, the Global South so far has demonstrated a spectacular resilience in its commitment to stay out of the escalating conflict between Russia and the West.
Andrey Kortunov:
A New Western Cohesion and World Order
This persistent resistance to the continuous pressure ...
