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Opinion | How Brics chair Russia will deepen cooperation in expanded bloc
- Moscow aims to ensure continuity and promote collaboration in three areas: politics and security, economy and finance, and cultural and humanitarian contact
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On June 10 and 11, Brics foreign ministers will gather in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod for an annual meeting. This event is hosted by Russia, which in January assumed chairmanship of the grouping, with over 250 events scheduled.
Since the beginning of the year, Brics has included five new countries: Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which have joined Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
This showcases the rising international profile of the format. The expanded group will undoubtedly play a more prominent role in global affairs and allow the voice of the developing world to be heard loud and clear. Nizhny Novgorod will also welcome at the event the foreign ministers of several Global South and Eastern states, as well as countries chairing regional cooperation formats invited for a separate session under Brics auspices.
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Tectonic shifts are leading to the emergence of a more just multipolar world order. The unipolar model, which for centuries served the interests of the so-called “collective West” and fuelled their excessive consumption at the expense of other nations, is receding.
New centres of power are rising in Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East that strive to see their countries independent and self-reliant while exercising the sovereign right to choose their development path.
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Countries in the West are doing everything to preserve their domination, including imposing self-invented “rules” for the rest of the world to follow, creating divides in the logic of a bloc-based confrontation.
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