00:00Welcome, Eduardo, to From the South, once more.
00:04Thank you very much for the invitation.
00:05Really glad to be here.
00:07Eduardo, this BRICS Leaders Summit is taking place
00:10in a context of geopolitical turbulence, we can say.
00:13So how important is the, what does it
00:16represent the growing strength of the BRICS
00:19in terms of the distribution of power in the world right now?
00:23Well, I would say that, first of all, maintaining the BRICS
00:27unity is itself very politically significant.
00:31We know that one of the major outcomes of this summit
00:37is that the BRICS countries managed to reach an unanimous declaration,
00:41the New Delhi Declaration.
00:42This is very significant because we know that they managed
00:46to reach this declaration despite the very significant
00:50political differences among them.
00:52We know that the BRICS are not a military alliance,
00:56it's not an ideological block against the Western world.
01:01And we know that a lot of the countries in the BRICS
01:05have very different foreign policies and sometimes
01:08even contradictory interests.
01:11So in a certain way, managing to have a declaration,
01:16managing to maintain unity, is itself a very significant message.
01:21We know that the axis of this declaration are built around sovereignty,
01:29around the opposition of the unilateral coercion,
01:33like financial coercion, economic coercion, which is one of the main axis
01:40of war tensions today.
01:43There was also a very important message around the need of reforming global governance in the UN,
01:51in the EMF, in very different international institutions.
01:55Having this argument that today, the weight of Global South,
02:02it could be in terms of population, in terms of economic growth, in terms of trade,
02:08is much bigger than it was decades ago.
02:12So the global governance needs to reflect that change.
02:16There were many issues that were treated, and I would say that
02:21mainly one of the biggest and the most important ones was
02:25this challenging of the unilateral power of economic coercion.
02:30We can have a lot of interpretations also of how this was framed in the context of the Iranian
02:38war against the US and Israel, where this unilateral economic coercion has been
02:47deployed in a very concerning way.
02:49But this is not only against Iran.
02:52We have seen this against Russia.
02:54In this moment, we are seeing a very critical dynamic around this unilateral economic coercion
03:01against Cuba, which is provoking a huge humanitarian crisis.
03:06So in a certain way, this summit of the BRICS countries has been pushing towards
03:14more and more the framing of a multilateral world, which is not a union against the Western war.
03:22It is a union that is positioning the need of international law,
03:26it's positioning the need of not allowing that one country of very few countries in the Western world
03:35could have this power to violate international law and try to impose their will upon other countries.
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