Russia, Venezuela has a busy agenda at the Summit

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*Bilateral Meeting were held on the sidelines of the 16th BRICS Summit *Leaders moved on the expanded forum throughout the day

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00:00The 16th BRICS Summit continues on its third day and final day.

00:04Our Special Envoy Yunus Öner brings us details from Kazan, Russia.

00:08Good evening from the city of Kazan in the Russian Federation, where the 16th Summit

00:18of the BRICS Alliance is about to end.

00:22The final public statement on behalf of the Alliance was made today's afternoon by the

00:30Russian President Vladimir Putin.

00:33Russia has the chairmanship of the BRICS this year until the end of the year.

00:39Russian President Putin stated that this is, I quote, the gathering of the truly independent

00:47and sovereign states that have chosen to follow their own path.

00:52He referred to the BRICS Plus meeting that happened today's morning in two different

00:59sessions where 35 countries participated on level of head of government or head of state.

01:06This is the platform where BRICS members take part.

01:12Those countries take part that would like to join the BRICS or that would simply would

01:16like to have better and closer relationships with BRICS.

01:20And in this format, he said that the work of BRICS will continue towards achieving a

01:28more democratic, inclusive and multipolar world.

01:33As you know, the decision was taken by the BRICS to establish a new category that is

01:41the partner country status.

01:43This has been agreed upon by the members.

01:46So this is another important issue that the President, the Russian President referred

01:52to in his press conference, in his closing press conference where he stated that there

01:58was a lot of contact between the delegations and a certain number of countries were agreed

02:04upon by the current BRICS members to invite them to join as partner countries, not fully

02:11members but partner countries.

02:13He described the path ahead as follows, that these countries would be sent an invitation,

02:20an official invitation letter and if they respond positively to this invitation letter

02:26then they would be disclosed as joining the alliance as partner countries.

02:32In the questions and answers section, there was, this has appeared, journalists from the

02:38Brazilian newspaper O Globo asked the Russian President whether, I quote, Russia would overwrite

02:45a Brazilian veto against Venezuela's application to enter the BRICS alliance.

02:52That was quite a difficult and provocative question actually because obviously these

02:59decisions are taken in BRICS on the basis of consensus and the answer of the Russian

03:06President was important.

03:08He said firstly, he acknowledged there is a difference of opinion between him and Brazilian

03:15President Lula and he added that he thinks, his government believes that there are laws

03:21in Venezuela and according to these electoral laws, Nicolas Maduro has won the elections

03:29and is the elected President of Venezuela and he also added that for him right now Venezuela

03:37is fighting, I quote, a struggle for its independence and sovereignty.

03:43So he clearly reaffirmed his support for the Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro and

03:50then he added that he believes that Lula, if he faces the facts objectively and as he

03:57is an integral person, that's the word of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he will

04:03come to terms with Nicolas Maduro's application for BRICS.

04:08That's the implicit message that the Russian President gave and he also added that Lula

04:13had sent a message to President Maduro via the Russian President as well.

04:19So here some dialogue will continue on the issue but besides that the summit is getting

04:25to an end.

04:26Right now the last bilateral meetings are taking place to happen until tonight.

04:33We have here local time 9.30 so they are about to end and tonight the 16th summit of the

04:42BRICS alliance will end and already some of the leaders are departing towards their home

04:48countries.

04:51Thank you Yunus for all the information.

04:53We were listening to our special envoy Yunus Unar in the framework of the 16th summit of

04:58the BRICS.

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