BRICS Expands as Kazan Declaration Sets New Guidelines for Global Cooperation

The global leaders are attending meeting in Kazan in Russia. Many leaders  from the different nations are attending BRICS summit, this is the first year when new members like Iran, UAE and another also there in Russia. The state heads of the BRICS accepted a new Kazan Declaration, which is declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The approval of the Kazan declaration was announced by Russian President.

He said, “Are there any objections to this declaration or comments? If not, I propose considering the declaration adopted.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin, “contains general assessments of the state of affairs in the world, summarizes the results of Russia’s presidency of BRICS, and defines guidelines for long-term cooperation.”

The official declaration by the Russian govt is not released yet but there is a official release by the external ministry of India.

According to the official external ministry of India the Kazan Declaration includes these major points:

1.      We, the Leaders of BRICS countries, met in Kazan, Russian Federation, from 22 to 24 October 2024 for the XVI BRICS Summit held under the theme: ”Strengthening Multilateralism for Just Global Development and Security”.

2.      We reiterate the importance of further enhancing BRICS solidarity and cooperation based on our mutual interests and key priorities and further strengthening our strategic partnership.

3.      We reaffirm our commitment to the BRICS spirit of mutual respect and understanding, sovereign equality, solidarity, democracy, openness, inclusiveness, collaboration and consensus. As we build upon 16 years of BRICS Summits, we further commit ourselves to strengthening cooperation in the expanded BRICS under the three pillars of political and security, economic and financial, cultural and people-to-people cooperation and to enhancing our strategic partnership for the benefit of our people through the promotion of peace, a more representative, fairer international order, a reinvigorated and reformed multilateral system, sustainable development and inclusive growth.

4.      We commend the Russian BRICS Chairship for hosting an “outreach”/”BRICS Plus” Dialogue with participation of EMDCs from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and Middle East under the motto: “BRICS and Global South: Building a Better World Together” in Kazan on 24 October 2024.

5.      We welcome the considerable interest by countries of the Global South in BRICS and we endorse the Modalities of BRICS Partner Country Category. We strongly believe that extending the BRICS partnership with EMDCs will further contribute to strengthening the spirit of solidarity and true international cooperation for the benefit of all. We commit to further promoting BRICS institutional development.

The BRICS was created by Brazil, Russia, India and China, and South Africa joined in 2011. But they announced their expansion on January 1, 2024, Egypt, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia became full members. This is the first time when these nations have attended the meeting.