🔴 #LIVE: President Vladimir Putin takes part in the XV BRICS Summit via videoconference.

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📸 Heads of delegations of the #BRICS member states 🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦

📍 Johannesburg, August 22, 2023

Good morning, India! 🌞 शुभ प्रभात, भारत!

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📹 President Putin's video address to the Participants in the #BRICS Business Forum

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Key points:

🔹 Our cooperation is based on the principles of equality, partner support, and respect for each other's interests. And that is what lies at the core of our Association's forward-looking strategic course – the course that reflects the aspirations of most of the world’s community, the so-called global majority.

🔹 Over the last decade, mutual investments among the BRICS countries have increased six-fold. Their overall investments in global economy have doubled, and their total exports have reached 20 percent of the world exports.

🔹 The objective and irreversible process of the de-dollarization of our economic ties is gaining pace. We are working to fine-tune effective mechanisms for mutual settlements and monetary and financial control.

🔹 Russia stands for greater cooperation within BRICS as regards reliable and uninterrupted supplies of energy and food resources to the world markets. We are consistently increasing supplies of fuel, agricultural products and fertilizers to countries in the Global South, making a significant contribution to strengthening global food and energy security, addressing acute humanitarian issues and fighting hunger and poverty in countries in need.

🔹 Our country has the capacity to replace Ukrainian grain, both commercially and as free aid to needy countries, especially since our harvest is again expected to be perfect this year. As a first step, we have decided to gratuitously provide six African countries with 25‑50 thousand tonnes of grain each with free delivery of these cargoes.

🔹 I am confident that the BRICS Business Forum and Business Council will continue their creative work aimed at expanding contacts between the business circles of the Group of Five countries and jointly implementing new mutually beneficial projects.

🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 Russia's President Vladimir Putin took part in an informal meeting of the leaders of the #BRICS nations via videoconference.

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🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 Heads of the BRICS nations' delegations show the BRICS spirit during the traditional photo ceremony 🤝

📍 Johannesburg, August 23, 2023

🔴 #LIVE: President Vladimir Putin takes part on second day of the XV BRICS Summit in South Africa online

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🇷🇺🇮🇳 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Minister of External Affairs of India Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar hold talks on the sidelines of the #BRICS Summit

📍 Johannesburg, August 23, 2023

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🎙 President Vladimir Putin took part, via videoconference, in the XV BRICS Summit (August 23, 2023)

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💬 I would like to begin by thanking our South African friends for everything they have done as part of their #BRICS chairmanship this year.

Those of my colleagues who took the floor before me praised BRICS for its efforts, and overall we share this assessment. This association of five nations has established itself on the international stage as a respected entity and has been consistently strengthening its standing in international affairs.

BRICS has been following a forward-looking strategic course which meets the aspirations of a significant portion of the international community, the so-called global majority. By acting in a coordinated manner and based on the principles of equality, supporting each other as partners and taking each other’s interests into account, we tackle the most urgent issues on the global and regional agendas.

🌍 Importantly, we are all united in our commitment to shaping a multipolar world order with genuine justice, based on the international law and in keeping with the key principles set forth in the UN Charter, including sovereignty and respecting the right of every nation to follow its own development model. We oppose hegemonies of any kind and the exceptional status that some countries aspire to, as well as the new policy it entails, a policy of continued neo-colonialism.

Let me point out that it was the attempts by some countries to preserve their global hegemony that paved the way to the deep crisis in Ukraine. <...>

☝️ Russia decided to side with people who are fighting for their culture, their traditions, language and future. Stopping the war unleashed by the West and its satellites in Ukraine against the people of Donbass is the only thing that defines our actions in Ukraine.

Good morning, India! 🌞 शुभ प्रभात, भारत!

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🇷🇺🇮🇳 On August 23, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar during his visit to South Africa to attend the BRICS Summit.

The Ministers exchanged views on a wide range of bilateral and international issues, on cooperation in the #UN, #G20 and #BRICS. They discussed practical steps for further expanding trade and economic cooperation, as well as logistics and financial cooperation.

🤝 Sergey Lavrov congratulated his colleague on the successful landing of an Indian spacecraft on the Moon.

The Foreign Ministers agreed to remain in contact.