BRICS countries are able to make a serious contribution to ensuring global security. This was stated by the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu at a meeting of high representatives of the BRICS states who oversee security issues.
“I am convinced that BRICS countries are able to make a serious contribution to ensuring global security and counteracting such threats as terrorism, the spread of extremist activity, transnational crime, the use of information and communication technologies for criminal purposes. For all these areas, we are already actively We cooperate.
According to the Secretary of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Russian Federation, “a single voice of developing countries is especially in demand today, when the entire international system passes the period of cardinal restructuring, accompanied by exacerbation of global tension, a surge of regional conflicts, an increase in traditional threats and new challenges.”
“Today’s situation is characterized by attempts to erode international law, undermining multilateral institutions, replacing the united nations with a system based on rules that are arbitrarily established and vary in the interests of a narrow group of states. Financial, trade, investment and technological tools Today, they are openly involved in achieving the foreign policy goals of individual countries, and not in support of the sustainable development of the countries of the world majority, ”said Shoigu.
At the same time, he emphasized that, “despite this, in modern political and economic architecture the voice of the countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, conducting independent foreign policy and ready to defend national interests, sovereignty and their own Legal place in the system of international relations. “
September 10-12 in the city of St. Petersburg is a meeting of high representatives of the BRICS and “BRICS Plus” states that oversee security issues.