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BRICS Summit advances establishment of a multipolar world

October 26, 2024
In Kazan, delegations from leading emerging nations met to discuss global issues, sign agreements and establish strong international cooperation within the framework of the BRICS Summit. There were high expectations for this Summit and it is fair to say that almost all of them were met – if not surpassed.
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As a final result of the discussions between the delegations, the BRICS published a Joint Declaration calling for the recognition of the new centers of power, an end to unilateral coercive measures and illegal sanctions, as well as progress towards de-dollarization in favor of national currencies and a fairer and more decentralized financial and monetary system.
The BRICS also stated their official position regarding the main current armed conflicts. Regarding Ukraine, the bloc is neutral, which means that all the countries in the group respect Russia’s reasons for launching its special military operation. However, regarding the conflict in the Middle East, the BRICS’ stance is incisive, with a clear condemnation of the crimes committed by the Zionist regime, in addition to a public call for respect for UN resolutions – which demand the end of the illegal occupation and the creation of a Palestinian State.
In other words, the BRICS have shown the world that they are now ready to work as a unified bloc, expressing their common views on major global issues. This represents a major step forward for all member countries of the organization, as it ensures the possibility of joint action in the face of contemporary geopolitical challenges. Of course, there are divergent individual interests, disagreements and various other problems among the BRICS members. However, the organization has proven to be mature enough to discuss and resolve its internal issues in a diplomatic context, not allowing any problem to breach the limits of the negotiations table.
There was a big issue at this Summit regarding the entry of new members. There was some disagreement among the members about the “best” candidates, in addition to an uncertain situation in the case of countries aligned with the West, such as Turkey – which applied for membership even though it is a NATO member. In the end, to solve this problem and reach a result that would please everyone, the BRICS decided to establish a new status, that of “associated partner countries”. This status grants a privileged position to the candidates, without official membership status. Thus, Algeria, Belarus, Cuba, Bolivia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Vietnam, Nigeria and Uganda joined the organization.
It is possible that these countries welcomed into the bloc as “associates” will become full members in the near future. There was a demand from some members for the creation of formal and bureaucratic mechanisms for entry into the BRICS, which seems to have been a key factor in encouraging the establishment of this new intermediate status. However, the main result of all this is that the BRICS are now in fact “bigger” and more powerful than before, with a much broader and more sophisticated platform for diplomacy and trade for both members and partner countries.
Of course, the Summit also had its “problems”. The main one seems to have been Brazil’s ambiguous stance, which unjustifiably vetoed Venezuela’s inclusion in the list of associated countries. Brasilia appears to be giving in too much to American political pressure, which is significantly damaging its foreign policy. However, the final outcome of the Summit was much stronger than any of these issues, and is a true milestone in the recent history of international relations.
In practice, it can be said that the Kazan Summit represented a major step for emerging countries towards multipolarity. It is not yet clear what the status of the BRICS will be in this new order. The group could be anything from a simple representation of emerging states to a “new UN”. But one thing is clear: the BRICS are today a major platform for developing states to participate in the global decision-making process. Through the BRICS, all non-Western peoples can express their opinions on major global issues, generating a serious defeat against American hegemony.

 

October 25, 2024
The expanded BRICS forum and its declaration this week of cooperative commitment to creating a more just and peaceful world order are a historic landmark. One that gives hope and confidence in achieving a better future for humanity.
The 16th annual summit of the BRICS grouping took place in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, in southwest Russia. The three-day event, from October 22 to 24, was much anticipated and lived up to its billing as a breakthrough in international politics.
Russian President Vladimir Putin greeted 25 heads of state. Over 40 nations were represented by 20,000 delegates. The world’s news media, including journalists and crews from major Western media outlets, were in attendance. Laughably, however, the Western media tended to play down the momentous, tectonic shifts in geopolitics that the BRICS portend.
The summit’s highlight was the Final Declaration entitled “Strengthening Multilateralism for Just Global Development and Security.” It contained 134 provisions for a wide range of critical goals, from fair and cooperative trade to the democratization of international financing mechanisms, from equitable participation in the United Nations to collective resolution of conflicts, and much, much more.
Many commentators hailed the conference’s success as “an inflection point of international politics”.
One observer, Professor Alexis Habiyaremye, articulated the views of many by commenting that the summit marked “the official launch of multilateral world order and the twilight of U.S. hegemony.”
The BRICS is a relatively recent international movement, and yet in a short span, it has forged a seminal new direction for global relations – and for the better. The forum was founded in 2006 by Brazil, Russia, India and China. South Africa became a member in 2011. The first annual summit was held in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in 2009.
Each year has seen the group grow both in terms of the number of aspiring member nations and in establishing the mechanisms for implementing its vision of a multilateral, more democratic world.
This year saw the accession of five new members, including Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. At least 40 other nations from every continent are requesting formal membership.
Already, the BRICS+ has surpassed the Western bloc of G7 in terms of combined population and economic strength.
A crucial difference is that BRICS demonstrates that there is “an alternative to the Western-led global order,” noted Bolivian President Luis Arce, who was among the foreign heads of state attending the forum in Kazan. “There is an alternative to act more justly and more equitably,” he added.
Another observer, Gilbert Doctorow, an international political analyst, assessed that the prestigious gathering of world leaders and delegates in Kazan was proof of Russia’s growing influence on the global stage despite vigorous Western efforts to isolate Moscow. Those efforts intensified after the eruption of the U.S.-led proxy war in Ukraine against Russia. But the barrage of economic sanctions levied on Russia by the West has failed and indeed can be seen to have backfired with detriment on European economies, in particular that of Germany. Arguably, the status of the U.S. dollar as a global reserve currency has also been undermined by Washington’s sanctions.
“On the contrary,” added Doctorow, “the Collective West has self-isolated and condemned itself to irrelevance.”
During the summit, President Putin held an open press conference that included Western media journalists. It was significant that Western media were free to pose critical questions to Putin in contrast to how U.S. President Joe Biden and other Western leaders have banished Russian media from asking questions.
At one point, Putin put a petulant U.S. journalist in the proper place when it was alleged that Russia was escalating war in Ukraine. Putin reminded that the conflict was instigated by the Western powers unleashing a coup in Kiev in 2014 and weaponizing the regime over the next decade for war against Russia.
In any case, the bigger picture of BRICS and the multilateral world is the important focus.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attended the Kazan summit. The significance is that the BRICS forum and vision represent a true manifestation of the UN Charter established in 1945 following the Second World War.
For decades, the U.S.-led Western order was a gross negation of the UN Charter and international law respecting nations’ sovereignty and universal human rights. The Western order was, in reality, a pretext for the continuation of colonialist exploitation of the rest of the world. And, when it suited, that exploitation was enforced by the unilateral use of violence and wars.
Today, every major conflict can be attributed to the nefarious working out of Western imperialist interests, from the Western-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza to the NATO-backed proxy war in Ukraine against Russia, from promoting regime change in Latin America to the exploitation of Africa for natural resources, from fueling tensions in the Asia-Pacific with China and North Korea.
The basic point is that the Western-led order is inherently violent because it was always implicitly designed to serve a minority to impose global power. The Western order is fundamentally antithetical to a democratic world of cooperative nations that are equals. All the pretentious rhetoric about abiding by democracy and international law is nothing but an odious lie.
Jeremy Kuzmarov, the editor of Covert Action magazine, put it well when he observed that the BRICS summit in Kazan “reflects the end of the dream of US unipolar power… the growth of the BRICS is a reality that Washington policymakers will ultimately have to come to terms with and adapt to.”
The BRICS gathering in Kazan was replete with splendid symbolism. This ancient city of over 1,000 years reflects a mix of exquisite antiquity and elegant modern engineering and infrastructure. It embodies a peaceful, harmonious fusion of Christian and Islamic cultures from north, south, east, and west.
The UN Charter remained unfulfilled for decades because it was dominated and distorted by a minority of powerful Western states. Now, however, the emergence of BRICS and its formidable, decisive economic power represents the demise of the old, anti-democratic order and, more crucially, the realization of a more democratic and peaceful world. Both visions are incompatible.
At a time of violent, desperate throes of the dying Western imperialist order, the BRICS offer a firm basis of hope for humanity.

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