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.
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