00:00On their way in New Delhi, India, the member states adopted the New Delhi declaration as BRICS leaders address issues
00:07of global interest and expand their cooperation partnerships, emphasizing a people-centered diplomatic approach, advocating as well for global policies
00:16guided by the Principal of Humanity First.
00:19Our correspondent and Special Envoy Junos Sooner was there and has more detail for us. Go ahead, Junos, we hear
00:25you.
00:26Hello, good evening from New Delhi, Alejandra, to our new audience from the capital of India, where the 18th summit
00:36of the BRICS alliance has concluded 20 years after the establishment of the alliance.
00:45And the first day of the summit on Saturday was much about making the voice of the Global South heard
00:54on the international level in international institutions such as the UN, the IMF and the World Bank.
01:01The second day of the summit was an occasion where BRICS itself listened more carefully to other members of the
01:12Global South by establishing or holding its Outreach or BRICS Plus reunion,
01:19where 11, where the 11 members of the 11 members of the 11 members of the BRICS alliance came together
01:24with the 10 partner countries that have joined loosely the alliance and are interested in deepening their cooperation.
01:34And here also the BRICS leaders, the heads of state, held speeches also very of concern for the partner countries
01:44and beyond.
01:46Above all, the Chinese President Xi Jinping held a speech where he made an important proposal.
01:52He spoke of the greater BRICS.
01:55The greater BRICS is a formula that is frequently used by China and also by Russia that includes the partner
02:03countries, but also even further than that, other countries that are interested in cooperating with the BRICS alliance.
02:11And Xi made certain concrete proposals regarding the greater BRICS.
02:16He said these countries, the greater BRICS, could work together, could cooperate to secure supply chains and infrastructure and establish
02:26an internal market.
02:30And beyond that, the Chinese President also proposed the cooperation on this level, the greater BRICS level,
02:37to jointly developed intelligent manufacturing facilities, digitalization, the share of artificial intelligence codes.
02:49Here, China has an open model in difference to the United States.
02:53It's an open code.
02:55And Xi proposed to cooperate further on this.
02:58And as well as he proposed to cooperate more on science and development levels.
03:06Now, the important thing here is this proposals are made on the level of greater BRICS, indicating that the alliance
03:16might be open to further enlargement or deepening cooperation further on with new members or with new partner states.
03:26The Russian President Vladimir Putin also held a speech in that reunion.
03:32Putin made a point of introducing an insurance mechanism against damages from sanctions.
03:40That is an idea that was also presented yesterday by the Iranian President Masoud Pezheşki.
03:46And both countries are very much targeted by Western sanctions.
03:49And this proposal was also welcomed.
03:52And Putin added that also a mechanism to cooperate on grain exports may be introduced, that Russia was willing to
04:01establish such a mechanism.
04:03Important because Ukraine has recently started attacks on civilian commercial shipping in the Black Sea, affecting grain exports from Russian
04:14ports.
04:14In the closure speech, Narendra Modi, the Indian Prime Minister, said that he considers the summit a success, which is
04:25here also widely believed so and perceived so, due to the main factor of having been able to establish a
04:34consensus, especially regarding the war against Iran.
04:39The BRICS summit, the BRICS summit was able to produce a joint declaration here, condemning escalation without naming the aggressor,
04:48though.
04:48But it was able to do so.
04:50And it was even able to get together the Iranian President and the Crown Prince from the United Arab Emirates
04:57into the same room the first time these two met since the war started.
05:03But Modi also warned that BRICS has to move on from being a forum of declarations to more result producing
05:13time connected actions.
05:19He said he repeated an idea he presented yesterday of a mechanism of implementation and continuation.
05:25And he said BRICS needs to produce more real-life impact-having decisions.
05:34This is an idea that is distributed, discussed much on the summit and will be continued now with the People's
05:43Republic of China taking over the presidency from India.
05:48We must emphasize in that context that BRICS is not only the summit of the head of state.
05:54It is a number of ministerial meetings and below as well.
05:59More than 400 meetings have taken place.
06:03There is a number of work groups that all during the entire year work on concrete networks.
06:11And these are producing results.
06:16And the heads of state are like the climax of the work of BRICS Alliance.
06:22But sometimes these ministerial meetings do not get the attention they would deserve.
06:30Anyhow, India finishes its presidency with this summit.
06:34Now, the People's Republic of China is taking over with Xi's speech indicating more inclusion, opener doors for new partners
06:45or countries from the Global South to cooperate with the BRICS Alliance.
06:51And we will see what concrete results that will bring in the coming months and within the coming year.
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