PEKIN – As the Chinese Ministry of abroad Affairs reported last Friday, China's president Xi Jinping will take part in the 16th BRICS format summit in Kazan, Russia.
Mao Ning, a spokesperson for the ministry, informed of Xi's journey, stated that president Xi in Kazan would "take part in a gathering of leaders, discussions of state leaders with experts, and will besides conduct an in-depth exchange of views with leaders on the current global situation".
"China is ready to work with all parties to advance BRICS cooperation, to launch a fresh era of unity and autonomy in the Global South, and to advance peace and improvement together in the world," he handed to the media Mao Ning.
Xi Jinping is 1 of over 20 heads of state who will personally participate in the event. In Kazan, Russian president Vladimir Putin will welcome Chinese President, as well as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Turkish president Recep Erdogan, or Iran's president Masud Pezeszkian.
The Sermon expects high-ranking representatives of 32 countries.
The BRICS format, which is intended to counter the Western planet Order, initially included Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, but this year began to grow rapidly. Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, the United arabian Emirates and Saudi Arabia joined the organization in January this year. Turkey, Azerbaijan, Malaysia and respective another countries formally applied for admission to BRICS and more than 30 declared their willingness to join.
The BRICS summit in Kazan is already considered a success of Russia. He clearly contradicts the predictions that the war in Ukraine and the global arrest warrant for Putin would make him a pariah. Importantly, around 20 bilateral meetings are scheduled at the Kazan Putin Summit with leaders of countries who will participate in the event.
Among the many objectives that the participants of the Kazan Summit want to accomplish are, among another things, to make concrete work towards creating an alternate to SWIFT a cross-border payment system, a strategy that will be based on the own currencies of countries alternatively than the US dollar.
Russia is expected to sign a treaty on a "comprehensive strategical partnership" with Iran, strengthening closer ties between Moscow and Tehran. China has signed specified treaties with both Russia and Iran.
India wants to grow its cooperation with Russia, although they are already 1 of Moscow's most crucial trading partners. China with ambitions to become the leader of the Global South will usage the summit in the Sermon for this purpose. And for apparent reasons they want to keep at the same time formal and applicable neutrality in relation to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in order to hold the position of possible mediator.
From our perspective, Turkey is an highly interesting associate in the summit, who has applied to join the BRICS Group. Turkey, NATO associate and candidate for the European Union are increasingly frustrated by the West. Turkey's talks on EU membership were stuck in 2016 due to disputes with Cyprus and human rights issues. present Turkey's relations with the West cast a shadow over its exclusion from the F-35 fighter supply programme, but above all the attitude of Western states towards the situation in Gaza. Erdogan late accused the U.S. and Western allies of indirect engagement in Israeli military activities in the Gaza Strip.
At the top of BRICS will most likely not appear Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the real ruler of Saudi Arabia. The reason for the absence is to be the friction between Saudis and Russians on the policy of maintaining oil prices worldwide. Both countries are members of OPEC+.
Current members of BRICS have almost 45 percent of global oil reserves. The full income of associate States exceeds 1 3rd of global GDP, with 45% of the Earth's population surviving on it. Most of these countries officially hold a neutral stance against Russia's war against Ukraine and do not support the Western attempts to isolate Moscow internationally.
Leszek B. Glass
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