Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived in Russia to participate in the BRICS Summit to be held from October 22 to 24 in the Russian city of Kazan. teleSUR
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00:00Welcome back to From the South.
00:07We are going live because President Nicolas Maduro, President of Venezuela, is arriving
00:12in Kazan.
00:13We are watching live images as the presidential plane of Conviasa, the Venezuelan airline,
00:21is arriving at Kazan as President Maduro will be participating in the ongoing BRICS summit
00:28that is taking place in this city, that is bringing together over 22 heads of state and
00:35government that will participate in this BRICS summit 2024, hosted by Rocha, who is the current
00:42chairman of the organization.
00:44And over 30 nations have gathered here for this paramount summit, especially in this
00:51current context that the world is experiencing, to continue fostering, to continue bringing
00:57forward the creation of a more fair, more cooperative, multi-polar world in order to
01:04help develop all the emerging countries and emerging economy markets.
01:11Different topics are key on this agenda of this 2024 BRICS summit, as is the consolidation
01:18of trade in national currency and the increase in investment in developing countries to strengthen
01:26infrastructures of development and economic activities through the New Development Bank,
01:30which is currently headed by Dilma Rousseff.
01:33Dilma Rousseff, who held bilateral meeting with President Putin as the host earlier this
01:40day, where a report was given of how they have increased investment in member and partner
01:48countries to continue consolidating infrastructure and cooperation between the nations.
01:55So this year has a particular change from previous summits, which is the growth, the
02:01expansion of the BRICS format, which earlier they had the addition, the inclusion of Egypt,
02:08Saudi Arabia, Iran, the Emirates, and Ethiopia, and many other nations have expressed their
02:17willingness and readiness to join, and this is going to be on the agenda, the way to increase,
02:23to expand the BRICS through something that has been proposed by the Russian authorities,
02:28which is the partner state status, to continue consolidating bilateral relationships and
02:34cooperation throughout the global south, mainly, and beyond.
02:39As we were saying, these are live images we are getting from the airport at Kazan as President
02:46of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is arriving to take part in this important summit.
02:59The participants will also be addressing on this summit the current crisis in the Middle
03:06East after the escalating aggressions of the Israeli regime against the peoples of Palestine,
03:13Lebanon, and Syria.
03:17They're going to be debating on how to put an end, how to better stop the ongoing genocide
03:24being committed in Palestine, and how to make sure that the region regains its stability
03:29and peace so that the peoples of the region can prosper.
03:40Today in Kazan is a Venezuelan delegation headed by the executive vice president of
03:44the National, Delce Rodriguez, who is accompanied by high members of the communication sector,
03:51especially the Minister of Communication of Venezuela.
03:55That earlier today they signed a cooperation, a memorandum of agreement, a memorandum of
04:00understanding for the cooperation between the Venezuelan News BTV and BRICS TV to continue
04:07consolidating the relationship of friendship and cooperation in order to bring the reality
04:14of the peoples of the south to the world.
04:30Live images we're getting here at the airport in Kazan at any moment, the Bolivarian president
04:37Nicolás Maduro should be exiting the plane and coming down the stairs, and from there
04:42he will be attending the BRICS summit and taking part in all the different activities
04:48at this important BRICS 2024 summit being held in this Russian city of Kazan.
05:05So here we have the live images at the airport of Kazan, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro
05:12has officially arrived at the airport, he's up the stairs greeting the people that have
05:17come to receive him, here the authorities have come to receive him, he's accompanied
05:20by his wife, the first combatant of Venezuela, and as we have been saying the Venezuelan
05:29head of state will be carrying out an important agenda to continue strengthening the ties
05:34of brotherhood, relationship and cooperation between the countries participating in this
05:40BRICS summit and as a whole with the bloc itself.
05:45On numerous occasions now the Venezuelan president has expressed the will of Venezuela
05:51to also join this group, to be part of the BRICS family.
06:06The president of Venezuela is being greeted by the Russian authorities that have come
06:11here to this airport in Kazan to receive him for the official welcoming ceremony as
06:20they just arrived and will be taking part in the different plans, meetings of this BRICS
06:27summit as the group continues to foster cooperation in order to face the western hegemonic powers
06:37that have dominated the world for so many decades now and with this plan, this agenda
06:44of the BRICS, the idea is clear to stop being a unipolar world and to bring back the idea
06:50of multilateralism, of true multilateralism, the peoples of the world can work as one and
06:56cooperate to face the challenges that humanity is today facing in different fields, not only
07:02in the economic field but also in terms of fighting climate change, of bringing security
07:08and stability to the world in general.
07:19This is the images we have on our screen live from Kazan, President Nicolas Maduro has just
07:25arrived to take part in the BRICS summit, BRICS 2024 summit that is being held here
07:31hosted by Rocha as the chairman of the BRICS summit this year, it is expected that the
07:44Venezuelan president will be taking part in different meetings alongside his counterparts
07:50that are present here, over 36 countries have come here and over 22 of them are represented
07:57at the highest level by heads of state and government and the rest through their foreign ministers.
08:15We continue to see the live images as the president of Venezuela is being greeted by
08:21the Russian authorities that are present here at the airport.
08:28It seems that they are giving him to taste a very likely traditional dish from this area of Russia
08:37and it seems to be very good, it seems to show his approval, it seems to be a very good dish of
08:44traditional culture, Russia is a very rich in culture and different traditions, different peoples
08:52are part of the Russian Federation.
08:58Let's see if we can have some statements of the president, let's listen.
09:02Greetings, from my deepest love of brotherhood, from the diplomacy of peace of Venezuela,
09:16to all the people of Russia, we have arrived here to a historical area with several centuries
09:23of civilization that have lived through different stages in this area of Kinstand and its capital Kazan.
09:35We are arriving here to this historical summit, it is the first time that a president of Venezuela
09:43attends to a head of state's summit of BRICS.
09:51This is a historical time of a president of Venezuela to attend to a summit,
09:58we have been participating at the ministerial areas, ministers of economy, education,
10:05we are part of the BRICS, of this BRICS group which is part of the multipolar world
10:13and we come here to share the historical experience of the Venezuelan people,
10:20we come here to share the hope of a world without hegemony, without imperialism,
10:30of a world in which the emerging powers can share with the countries that from here,
10:37from the global south aspire to development, to prosperity,
10:42so the BRICS have become the epicenter of multipolarity,
10:49the BRICS are the epicenter of geopolitical, the BRICS are the hope of the global south
11:04that are willing to development and we take the flag of freedom
11:11and we hope to have access to a different economy set apart from blackmails, from hegemony,
11:20so an economy that be handled with free trade, with shared investment, with new technology,
11:29so we are part of this world, of this new world of the BRICS.
11:34President, can you say, well there are many questions,
11:39you just received a letter by Putin, this has generated expectations,
11:51what expectations have you brought to this summit?
11:55The biggest expectation is to contribute to the construction of a new world,
12:02there is another America, an America of peace, of women and men that aspire to freedom,
12:09there is an America which is not colonial, it is our America,
12:18and so we said that we are ready to build up a new world.
12:23President, can you say Russia and Venezuela are oil producing countries that are right now at the BRICS,
12:35and so this will consolidate Venezuela's oil power?
12:40Well, I was thinking about Commander Chavez when I was accompanying him at the OPEC Summit,
12:49at the different organizations, and we always thought about the possibility
12:54that we will be grouped in a big cooperation project,
13:01the countries that have the largest oil reserves, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela,
13:10and so in this space, the axis of the new world we have met together,
13:16so the four largest oil countries are here,
13:20and so Venezuela will offer its part from an economic project of autonomy,
13:27of indigenous development, from an economic project that demands a high level of investment,
13:36so we come here to hold talks, and so the Executive Vice President came here earlier
13:47to offer a package of proposals to the BRICS Plus countries,
13:55so are you planning to meet with some BRICS countries?
14:00Well, there are lots of affairs, I hope to talk to President Putin,
14:06and so we have just arrived, what time is it?
14:10Venezuela, it's 3pm, greetings to the Venezuelan people and to the American people,
14:19and we come here to defend and bring the truth and the free voice of the Venezuelan people,
14:27which today stands victorious, so today is a significant breakthrough to this new geopolitical order.
14:42The statements of President Nicolás Maduro as he has just arrived at Kazan Airport to take part in this BRICS Summit,
14:49as President Maduro was saying, Venezuela has come here to bring their proposals,
14:54their experience, and to be part of this machinery that is trying to engineer the new multipolar world,
15:00a world that is stronger through cooperation and fair trade market.
15:06We were just seeing those images live at Kazan, President Maduro is in Kazan,
15:11he's going to be present for the BRICS 2024 Summit,
15:14as member nations and partners and friends of the BRICS groups are all gathering,
15:18coming together to bring forward this real multipolar world, a more fair world,
15:23that is more inclusive and full of cooperation.
15:26With this, we're going to have to put an end to this news brief.
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