Let's have a contact with our special envoy Yunus Soner, who has all the details of this first day of the 16th summit of the BRICS, being held in the Russian city of Kazan.
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00:00In this context, let's have a contact with our Special Envoy Juno Zuner,
00:04who has all the details of this first day of the 16th Summit of the BRICS
00:08being held in the Russian city of Kazan.
00:13Hello from the Russian city of Kazan,
00:15where the 16th Summit of the BRICS Alliance has kicked off today
00:19with the arrival of Alliance members, presidents and prime ministers,
00:25as well as others.
00:2636 countries are joining this summit,
00:2922 of them at the level of head of government or head of state,
00:34and its first successes are already there.
00:38Ahead of the summit,
00:40China and India agreed to lower the tensions at their Himalaya borders,
00:47tensions that were heating up since four years,
00:51and they have come to an agreement,
00:53an important point, because their tensions have always been presented
00:58by Western sources as a reason, a main reason,
01:02why the BRICS Alliance would not work in the long run,
01:05because these two giants would not come to terms with each other.
01:10They did so, and they did also confirm that their presidents,
01:14the Chinese presidents Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi,
01:20will have a bilateral meeting here on the summit,
01:23thus displaying lowering tensions and progressing and deepening relations
01:30between the two countries, the two Asian giants.
01:33Another success already visible with the huge participation.
01:37As you remember, the West has tried to isolate Russia diplomatically and internationally.
01:44Now today, the Russian president Vladimir Putin
01:47has held bilateral meetings with the Indian prime minister,
01:50with the Chinese president, with the president of the South African Republic,
01:54the Arab Republic of Egypt,
01:56and all these bilateral meetings were accompanied by very warm comments.
02:02For instance, the Indian prime minister said after the meeting
02:05that it was, I quote, a wonderful one, he said, on social media.
02:11The South African president called Russia a valuable ally,
02:15and of course the Chinese president reiterated again
02:19the strategic nature of the cooperation between China and Russia.
02:25Another important point already also achieved by this summit
02:29is the participation of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas,
02:35who has arrived two days ago in Moscow to meet Vladimir Putin
02:40and who was invited to join the summit.
02:43This is important because his ambassador, the Palestinian ambassador in Russia,
02:48had already back in the summer announced in an interview
02:51that his country would apply for BRICS membership.
02:55Now, that's very important because Palestine, as you all know,
03:00is not a taken care country in the UN context,
03:04but it will seek refuge, it will seek support within the BRICS context.
03:10Speaking of the UN, another victory for the BRICS camp
03:13is the participation of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
03:17in the conference, the first travel of Guterres since 2022 to Russia
03:23since the beginning of the Ukrainian conflict.
03:26Thus, Guterres was harshly criticized by the Ukrainian presidency
03:31for his travel to Kazan, to Russia, but he did insist on it.
03:36This is another major step, as well as the Western press recognizes
03:41that its attempts to isolate Russia have failed
03:45and this has been on display on this summit already
03:50long before we came to the resolution that will be worked upon
03:55and decided upon during the summit in the next two days.