What happened on day 2 of the BRICS summit

Day 2 of BRICS brought speeches from Presidents Xi, Putin and Modi. CGTN’s Aljosa Milenkovic reports from Kazan.

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00:00President Xi, Putin and Modi all spoke today. What do they have to say?

00:08Of course, Jamie, they were addressing the beginning of the plenary session of the 16th BRICS Summit.

00:16And all of them were being, of course, broadcasted, but in the beginning after that,

00:22the cameras were switched off and they continued their plenary session behind closed doors.

00:28But what we heard during those few minutes, when they were addressing to the public,

00:33of course, to everybody, was that they are supporting the idea of a multipolar world.

00:38They are supporting the idea of resolving all unresolved issues

00:42in a peaceful manner throughout the world.

00:45And of course, the Chinese President Xi Jinping said that the world shouldn't underestimate

00:52and sideline the desires and the goals of the global South.

00:58We must build BRICS for peace and act as guardians of common security.

01:05Only by practicing a common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security concept

01:11can we pave the way for universal security.

01:15On the sidelines of this meeting, countries, of course, understandably conducting their own

01:19bilateral meetings, among them China and India. Do we know what they've discussed?

01:29Yes, it was one of the most sought after meetings here among the media people in Kazan,

01:35because it was a meeting of leaders of two countries which had the most population of the

01:41world. And it was interesting that they had reached an agreement that everything what they

01:47are doing should be done in a peaceful manner and that they should be used and taken as an example

01:53to the rest of the world how any kind of conflicts, how any kind of dispute should be

01:58resolved among the countries around the world. And this was something that was very much

02:03sought after here among the media people in Kazan.

02:06Alyosha, thank you for that. Our correspondent Alyosha Malenkovich in Kazan.