PETERSBURG, September 12 - The BRICS Security Summit, chaired by Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu, is discussing the parameters of the future world order.
The meeting will take place on 11 and 12 September in St Petersburg. The forum will also discuss the promotion of multipolarity and the right of nations to choose their own path of development, and the reform of the global political and financial-economic governance system.
According to the preliminary agenda, representatives of the BRICS group, which Russia chairs this year, intend to discuss how to jointly counter the "rules-based order" imposed by the West.
It is stated that BRICS leaders are particularly interested in dialogue with countries of the global South that seek to pursue independent policies based on state sovereignty. The organisers of the event consider the meeting to be very important "in a context of heightened confrontation and unpredictability in global affairs, deteriorating global economic and financial conditions, and growing obstacles to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals," it is stated in the information notes.
Earlier, the 14th meeting of BRICS senior security officials opened in St Petersburg. The event, chaired by Sergei Shoigu, is attended by representatives of Russia, China, Brazil, India, South Africa, as well as Egypt, the UAE, Iran and Ethiopia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is working in St. Petersburg today, meeting with senior BRICS leaders on security in the Marble Hall of the Konstantinovsky Palace.
After the meeting with the representatives, bilateral meetings with some of the visiting BRICS representatives are possible.
Among the topics of the current meeting are the parameters of the future world order, overcoming the order based on rules imposed by the West, the development of multipolarity and the coordination of actions in conditions of confrontation and unpredictability in world events.
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